JCPOA

I helped sell Obama’s Iran deal, and its critics owe us all an explanation - opinion

Each promised but failed breakthrough gave way to another promised breakthrough. And now comes the final indignity: the so-called memorandum of understanding.

US President Donald Trump holds up the memorandum of understanding, signed by the US, and Iran, at the Palace of Versailles, in France.
JEWS PROTEST against the nuclear deal reached with Iran before US Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center on September 3, 2015, in Davie, Florida.

Jewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal, more quietly than in 2015

US President Donald Trump, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, holds a press conference during the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026.

Trump’s Iran diplomacy could empower Hezbollah, weaken deterrence - opinion

TOPSHOT-IRAN-US-ISRAEL-WAR TOPSHOT - An woman walks past a billboard displaying Iran's national flag at Enghelab Square in Tehran on June 14, 2026. US President Donald Trump said that a deal with Iran to end the Middle East war could be signed on June 14, and that the strategic Strait of Hormuz woul

The US-Iran MoU is a product of Tehran's survival-first strategy - analysis


Rep. Josh Gottheimer: We cannot trust or do business with Iranian leadership

Last month, Gottheimer led a bipartisan group of 50 lawmakers who came forward to raise concerns about the Iran deal.

US Representative  Josh Gottheimer at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, September 12, 2022

The West is strangling Israel's cyber forces for fighting enemies - Shaked

The West is over-regulating Israel's cyber offensive sector and causing Israel to do the same, said Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.

 Ayelet Shaked, Minister of the Interior.

Iran nuclear deal is obsolete, new agreement needed - Israeli official

Lapid thanked the E3 for their strong position on the revival of the nuclear deal at Sunday's weekly government meeting.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid lands in Germany for a diplomatic visit with Holocaust survivor Shosh Terrister, September 11, 2022.

E3 doubts Iran wants to sign nuclear deal, as Lapid heads to Germany

Blinken: JCPOA must meet our bottom line * Eisenkot: mistake to exit agreement in 2018

 European External Action Service (EEAS) Deputy Secretary General Enrique Mora and Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria May 1, 2021.

US is sending mixed messages on Israel’s security in the West Bank - analysis

Not only is the US trying to intervene in the rules of engagement, but it is trying to tell Israel where to station its soldiers.

 People light candles during a vigil in memory of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid, outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 16, 2022

A renewed Iran nuclear deal would have mixed effects on Latin America

The entrance of Iran as a potential market of interest for investors could push investors away from Latin America into Iran’s hands, according to political analyst Dr. Daniel Linsker.

Pedestrians walk by Argentina's Central Bank in Buenos Aires' financial district, October 2, 2014.

Iran says it sends 'constructive' response on nuclear deal; US disagrees

A US official said the US government had received the Iranian response to its proposal to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, but gave no characterization of the document.

Members of special IRGC forces attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2022.

On the Iranian street, prospect of revived nuclear deal sparks economic hope

Most Iranians support a return to the deal but many think the country’s leaders are working to promote their own interests rather than those of average citizens, experts say

Iranians shout slogans during a protest against President Donald Trump's decision to walk out of a 2015 nuclear deal, in Tehran, Iran, May 11, 2018.

Iran nuclear deal: Iran will sign, but it won't go quietly - analysis

For Iran, it is lots of screaming and kicking at the 11th hour to see if it can secure a few more concessions before it signs the dotted line.

 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during the 33rd anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran, Iran June 4, 2022.

Lapid, Biden talk Iran deal as EU says agreement could be days away

These discussions were the first since a new draft of the Iran nuclear deal was tabled, and is a phone call Prime Minister Yair Lapid has pushed for.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaking to US President Joe Biden, August 31, 2022.