Sanctions advocates all too often assume a straight line between banishment and behavioral change.
Getting Iran to engage on the “plus” of a “JCPOA plus” will be hard, and recent Russian proposals will unlikely convince Tehran.
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If Biden wants to slow this arms race, he will need to accept limits on U.S. missile defense systems.
The new US administration intends to revive diplomacy with Iran and return to the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA).
How the Biden Administration can re-join the treaty, Russia may be persuaded to stay in it, and other members can help facilitate them.
Russian competition with Iran in Syria will afford Washington limited opportunities to rely on Russian leverage-plays with Tehran.
William C. Potter and Anton Khlopkov in Kommersant.