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Iran nuclear deal

Iranian President Rouhani visiting the exhibition of nuclear achievements. Credit: Official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. https://president.ir/en/120598

Preventing an accidental nuclear crisis in Iran and beyond

By Samuel M. Hickey | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Arak IR-40 heavy water reactor, Iran. Credit: Nanking2012. CC BY-SA 3.0 Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

How Iran’s research reactors prove the nuclear deal is still working

By Samuel M. Hickey | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Rescue and clean-up crews search for casualties following the barracks bombing in Beirut on October 23, 1983. If negotiators hope to revive the Iran nuclear deal, they must address the billions of dollars’ worth of civil judgments by US victims of terrorism against Iran. Photo credit: United States Marine Corps. Public domain image.

US courts say Iran owes terrorism victims billions. That’s an obstacle to a new Iran nuclear deal.

By Christopher A. Bidwell | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Iranian President Rouhani in April visiting the exhibition of nuclear achievements. Credit: Official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. https://president.ir/en/120598.

Iran’s uranium gambit is a dangerous negotiating tactic

By Naysan Rafati | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Anti-aircraft guns guarding Natanz nuclear facility. Credit: Hamed Saber. Image accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Alleged sabotage at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility comes amid talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, Wang Qun, speaks to journalists in front of the Grand Hotel after the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran held their talks. The United States participates in discussions in Vienna to try to save the international agreement on Iranian nuclear power. However, they don't meet at the same table as Tehran and it is the Europeans who serve as intermediaries between the two parties. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why a quick return to the Iran nuclear deal is needed to avoid a real nuclear crisis

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

2016 Iranian air defense exercise. Credit: Tasnim News Agency accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

The window for an Iran missile deal is already closing

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

President Biden delivers remarks to the virtual Munich Security Conference. Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

Foreign commercial banks: The essential partner in future discussions of the Iran nuclear deal

By Christopher A. Bidwell | Nuclear Weapons

Mohammad Javad Zarif, in 2019

Nine hurdles to reviving the Iran nuclear deal

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk

A clean return to the Iran nuclear deal should be Biden’s first option

By Eric Brewer | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The 2020 nuclear landscape, in the shadow of a pandemic

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk

The funeral procession for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Four ways the killing of Iran’s nuclear scientist will undercut US national security

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Risk