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Decertifying the Iran Deal Wouldn't Have to Kill It
(Wall Street Journal) Dennis Ross - Certification of the Iran nuclear deal is not part of the JCPOA, the agreement between Iran and the P5+1. Instead, it is a requirement of a U.S. law, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. The administration needs to explain that it is not pulling out of the JCPOA and is not asking Congress to restore the sanctions that were waived under the deal. But it should say that the U.S. is not going to acquiesce in Iran's dangerous behavior and is, therefore, decertifying to put the world on notice that at some point the U.S. will walk away from the deal if the JCPOA's sunset provisions, Iran's testing of ballistic missiles, and its regional misbehavior are not addressed. The writer has held senior national security positions in several presidential administrations and is counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.