... Japan). These measures caused serious damage to Iran and were among the factors for signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015 and adopting UN Security Council Resolution 2231. However, in 2018, the US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, while maintaining the extraterritorial nature of its sanctions. In other words, while in the case of North Korea unilateral US measures coexisted with the UN sanctions regime, large-scale unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions against Iran were imposed by the Americans and no one else. At the same time, the volume and political consequences of the US secondary sanctions over Iran are much stronger in comparison with sanctions over North Korea.
Over the past ten years, the US sanctions ...
... program Iran would be unable to obtain a nuclear weapon quickly. Consequently, it would not be able to follow in the footsteps of North Korea. Having developed nuclear warheads and means of delivery, the DPRK can negotiate from the position of strength. The fear of isolation or aggression would keep Tehran from leaving the JCPOA. In other words, the US does not lose anything as far as the nuclear issue is concerned, and Iran maintains its status quo. Still, the US decided to impose new restrictions and requirements. In fact, this is what the Republicans ...
... warheads Beijing has, which generates various speculations on the topic.
Richard Weitz
did not express optimism about the issue of arms reduction in the next few years. As for non-proliferation, trilateral cooperation can take place, for example, on North Korea issue. Also, the parties may cooperate on a nuclear deal with Iran - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) expires in a few years, so they will have to decide on further actions. The most effective is the cooperation of the three countries in preventing the entry of nuclear materials into the hands of terrorists by reducing the volume of such material,...