At #SFRCIran, @USEnvoyIran: When the deal was initially concluded and debated by the Congress, and again when the previous administration left the deal, this question prompted heated arguments based on hypotheticals and counterfactuals.
But we do not need to rely on theory or thought experiments to answer it now. For we have gone through several years of a real-life experiment in the very policy approach critics of the JCPOA advocated: a so-called maximum pressure policy, designed to strangle revenue for…
the Iranian regime, in hopes of getting Iran to accept far greater nuclear restrictions and engage in far less aggressive behavior. Many of us strongly disagreed with this policy at the time, but we could of course not prove that it would fail.
That was then. This is now. Then we predicted. Now we know.
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