BASIC Policy Fellow Anahita Parsa compiles a timeline over recent decades of Iran’s nuclear programme.
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BASIC Statement: A Narrowing Window to Avert a Major War in the Middle East
BASIC is gravely concerned by recent military actions involving Israel, the United States, and Iran, which risk triggering a volatile regional conflict in the Middle East, as well as the potential for global economic upheaval through oil market and trade disruption.
Masterclass from Sahil V Shah: Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran: Then and Now
On Wednesday 1 May, Sahil V Shah, from the Council on Strategic Risk (CSR), joined the Emerging Voices Network (EVN) to deliver an Expert Masterclass on ‘Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran: Then and Now’.
Europe and the Iran Deal: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
After more than a year of uncertainty, President Trump announced that the United States would reimpose sanctions against Iran in violation of the JCPoA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), leaving the Iran Deal in limbo.
The Iran Deal: A Conversation Between Close Allies
The U.S. is at odds with one of its staunchest allies. Why?
New Nukes, New Missions, New Insecurities: Implications of the Nuclear Posture Review for Europe
Many fear the US Nuclear Posture Review will expand the circumstances and range of US nuclear deterrence, with knock-on effects for European security and strategic stability with Russia.
What next after the Iran Nuclear Deal?
The Iran nuclear deal is seen by many as a success for international relations and security. Implementation Day (16th January) came after years of intensive negotiations. Iran has reduced activities that could have been used to develop nuclear weapon capabilities and the E3+3 has responded by lifting many of its sanctions. There remain severe doubts and enemies of the deal in the United States, Iran and neighbouring states. There are likely to be developments in the region that could put the agreement under further pressure.
Agreement with Iran: No Longer Enemy Number One
Profil Online’s Christina Feist interviewed BASIC’s Paul Ingram on the Iranian economy, Western interests and the relationship with Israel just a few days after Implementation Day.