(Washington Post) David Albright and Andrea Stricker - The Iran deal suffers from inadequate verification and, most problematically, "sunset" clauses that allow Tehran to start rebuilding its nuclear-weapons capability. European officials like to stress that when the sunsets end, Iran would still be a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and subject to its Additional Protocol. If these were enough by themselves, however, there would have been no need for the 2015 nuclear agreement. Time isn't a friend. It took nearly 15 years to achieve the nuclear accord after the discovery of Iran's once-covert nuclear program in 2002. The U.S. and Europe must start building a common approach to prevent the nuclear crisis that the JCPOA has only temporarily delayed. Although developing a common position on stopping Tehran's nuclear buildup will take months, agreeing to start is urgent. The writer is president of the Institute for Science and International Security, where Andrea Stricker is a senior policy analyst.
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