(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser - President-elect Donald Trump has three options for dealing with the Iran nuclear agreement. 1) Not to touch the agreement, but to intensify efforts to verify that Iran is upholding it. Supporters of this approach include those who maintain that enhanced supervision would probably expose Iranian breaches of the agreement. 2) Not to touch the agreement, but to add sanctions on non-nuclear issues such as Iran's efforts to develop long-range missiles, its support for terror, and human rights violations. The chances would increase that the Iranians would react angrily and indeed violate the nuclear agreement, enabling the U.S., in turn, to renounce it without bearing the responsibility for its collapse. 3) To demand of Iran that the agreement be reopened for discussion. Legally there is no problem here because the U.S. commitment to the JCPOA was based on a presidential decree. From the U.S. standpoint, the plan did not become an international treaty (indeed, none of the sides signed it). The writer, Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center, was formerly head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.
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