Donald Trump announced a new “strategy” — loosely defined — for confronting Iran. Trump also will refuse to certify that Iran is implementing its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), throwing the issue back to Congress and (possibly) starting a second nuclear crisis. Jeffrey and Aaron discuss why …
Act I: The Iran Deal Begins to Unravel
by | 2017-10-14 | 8 Comments
Quote of the Week: “Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy Do anything, take us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy” —Stevie Winwood Another wave of leaked accounts has washed through the media about Donald Trump’s unsuitability to have direct access to America’s …
Guest post: Halloween comes early for the Iran Deal
by | 2017-10-12 | 4 Comments
President Trump has justified his threat to “decertify” the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or “Iran deal,” less by any material failures of compliance than by asserting that Iran has “violated the spirit of that deal,” which boils down to the observation that Iran and the USA are on the opposite sides of unrelated …
ICAN wins the Nobel Peace Prize
by | 2017-10-12 | No Comments
ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” Jeffrey and Aaron discuss the prize, the treaty to ban nuclear weapons, and efforts …
