{"id":222119,"date":"2020-07-14T08:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=222119"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:01:04","slug":"struan-stevenson-five-years-later-nuclear-deal-with-iran-is-in-tatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/struan-stevenson-five-years-later-nuclear-deal-with-iran-is-in-tatters\/","title":{"rendered":"Struan Stevenson- Five Years Later, Nuclear Deal With Iran Is in Tatters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222121\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Failure-to-JCPOA\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Failure-to-JCPOA.jpg\" alt=\"Struan Stevenson- Five Years Later, Nuclear Deal With Iran Is in Tatters \" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Failure-to-JCPOA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Failure-to-JCPOA-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Failure-to-JCPOA-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Failure-to-JCPOA-696x394.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Failure-to-JCPOA-742x420.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JCPOA failure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mr. Struan Stevenson, the coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change and former president of the European Parliament&#8217;s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14), wrote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/Voices\/2020\/07\/13\/Five-years-later-nuclear-deal-with-Iran-is-in-tatters\/6941594641996\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article<\/a> on the United Press International (UPI) website. In this article Mr. Stevenson described Iran 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">formally<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/editorial-a-way-out-of-the-jcpoa-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JCPOA<\/a>), tattered. &#8220;It will be five years this week since the Iran nuclear deal was signed in Vienna. The one-sided deal contained many clauses and annexes that related mainly to the lifting of sanctions in Iran. In return, the West got very little,&#8221; read the article.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It will be 5 years this week since the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nuclear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nuclear<\/a> deal was signed, a very bad deal for us &amp; a breakthrough for the mullahs<br \/>\nBrutalized <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranians<\/a> now look to the West to end their appeasement of this cruel regime<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranRegimeChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranRegimeChange<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HumanRights?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HumanRights<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tj6qCjrfvL\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tj6qCjrfvL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 STRUAN (@STRUANSTEVENSON) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/STRUANSTEVENSON\/status\/1282703626180481024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The following is Mr. Stevenson&#8217;s full article on UPI:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It will be five years this week since the Iran nuclear deal was signed in Vienna. The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council &#8212; China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States &#8212; together with the European Union (P5+1) signed what was called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran on July 14, 2015.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It was U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s last-ditch effort to achieve a major foreign policy legacy before he left office.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The one-sided deal contained many clauses and annexes that related mainly to the lifting of sanctions in Iran. In return, the West got very little, apart from a few scant paragraphs detailing Iranian cooperation in slowing its nuclear enrichment process for a period of eight years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It was a very bad deal for the West and a breakthrough deal for Iran. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/editorial-a-way-out-of-the-jcpoa-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JCPOA<\/a> released over $150 billion in assets that were frozen under the sanctions, revitalizing the broken Iranian economy and enabling the theocratic regime to redouble its funding of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Bashar al-Assad in Syria and the brutal <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shi&#8217;ia<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> militias in Iraq.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" class=\" wp-image-219239 aligncenter td-animation-stack-type1-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" width=\"249\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Page after page of the JCPOA related specifically to the dismantling of all sanctions on Iran&#8217;s banking, insurance, metals, aviation, shipping, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">arms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and general trade markets, even covering the reopening of Iran&#8217;s right to sell carpets and caviar to the West. Ludicrously, under the deal the West also had to end its &#8220;exclusion of Iranian citizens from higher education coursework related to careers in nuclear science, nuclear engineering or the energy sector.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In other words, Western universities were being told to train Iranians in advanced nuclear technology to ensure that they were properly equipped to build a nuclear bomb. You <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">couldn&#8217;t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> make it up.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">More ominously, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/editorial-a-way-out-of-the-jcpoa-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JCPOA<\/a> committed the P5+1 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to supporting Iran&#8217;s crumbling economy financially with export credit guarantees, grants, financial assistance and even loans to the government of Iran. All &#8220;persons, entities and bodies&#8221; previously banned from traveling to the West were to have their full rights restored so that they could be issued visas.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The list of these persons, entities and bodies ran to more than a dozen pages and, hidden away near the foot of this long catalog of Iranian banks, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">petro<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-chemical companies, sanctions evaders and individuals, was none other than Gen. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27175-who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, the fanatic jihadist and notorious commander of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Q<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uds Force<\/a>. Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike at <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Baghdad Airport in early January, ending his tenure as one of the Iranian regime&#8217;s main godfathers of terrorism and murder.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As far as scrutiny of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program was concerned, regular inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency were limited to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/iran-s-nuclear-weapons-program\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natanz<\/a> site in Isfahan Province, Iran&#8217;s main underground nuclear facility with over 19,000 operational centrifuges. Natanz was first revealed to Western intelligence agencies by the People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, the main democratic opposition group, in 2002. Until that point, it had been a closely guarded secret by the Iranian regime. In February 2015, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK<\/a> revealed another secret site called Lavizan-3 in a military base in northeast Tehran&#8217;s suburbs. Again, this had been entirely hidden from Western inspectors.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The JCPOA stated that: &#8220;Iran will permit the IAEA regular access, including daily access as requested by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/iran-regimes-fear-of-upcoming-iaea-board-of-governors-meeting\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IAEA<\/a>, to relevant buildings at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/iran-s-nuclear-weapons-program\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natanz<\/a>.&#8221; The fact that only &#8220;relevant&#8221; buildings were to be accessed and only at Natanz was indicative of how Iran intended to restrict inspections to the bare minimum.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The West was to be reassured by a clause that stated: &#8220;For 15 years, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/iran-s-nuclear-weapons-program\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natanz<\/a> enrichment site will be the sole location for all of Iran&#8217;s uranium enrichment-related activities, including safeguarded R&amp;D.&#8221; So, from the outset, the West was supposed to trust the Iranian regime, which had previously hidden all their nuclear facilities from the West.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">How on earth Obama&#8217;s Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the P5+1 team fell for this is astonishing. For Kerry and the P5+1 to capitulate to almost every Iranian demand revealed a level of weakness that was eagerly exploited by the mullahs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ink was hardly dry on the agreement in July 2015 before Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a fiery address to mark the end of Ramadan in a mosque in Tehran said: &#8220;Whether this scheme is approved or disapproved, we will never stop supporting our friends in the region and the people of Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon. Even after this deal, our policy toward the arrogant U.S. will not change. Our policy in the region is 180 degrees different from the U.S.,&#8221; he told an audience of hard-liners who cried: &#8220;Death to America&#8221; and &#8220;Death to Israel.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Obama tried to convince the world that he had struck a good deal with the &#8220;trustworthy and moderate&#8221; President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. In fact, the opposite was true. Rouhani was not trustworthy and certainly not moderate. It was a terrible deal, which, far from curtailing Iran&#8217;s expansionist agenda, had significantly strengthened its position in the Middle East. Iran&#8217;s efforts to build a nuclear weapon continued in secret, hidden from the IAEA&#8217;s inspectors. Military bases that were declared off- limits under the terms of the nuclear deal, were where most of the regime&#8217;s nuclear activity was and is still taking place.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From day one of his presidency, Donald Trump decried the JCPOA as &#8220;the worst deal in history.&#8221; During his first year in office, Trump kept signing waivers and repeatedly asked Iran to come back to the negotiation table. The mullahs refused, so the United States withdrew from the deal and reintroduced tough sanctions, which have had a crippling impact on the Iranian economy and curtailed the mullahs&#8217; expansionist agenda in the Middle East.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nevertheless, China and Russia, as close allies of the clerical regime, and the EU as arch-appeasers, have stubbornly clung to the crumbling remnants of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/editorial-a-way-out-of-the-jcpoa-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JCPOA<\/a>, despite recurring breaches of the deal by the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mullahs, desperately searching for ways to circumvent the sanctions without severing ties with the United States.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On June 30, the U.N. secretary general received a report indicating how Iran has breached U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 over the past six months. The report, prepared by a team of U.N. investigators, showed how the missiles used last September to hit Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil installations were of Iranian origin. The report listed attacks on oil tankers in Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, and recorded how a Japanese tanker was attacked in the Gulf of Oman when the Japanese prime minister was in Iran. The fascist regime&#8217;s continuing aggressive activities in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lebanon<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and Gaza were also reported.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Five years on, the West must surely recognize that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/editorial-a-way-out-of-the-jcpoa-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JCPOA<\/a> was a disastrous mistake and that the Americans were right to withdraw from it unilaterally. As a key sponsor of international terror and a violent aggressor at home and abroad, the Iranian regime has compounded its role as a pariah state. Some 80 million oppressed and brutalized Iranians now look to the West to end their appeasement of this cruel regime and transfer their support to the people of Iran who long for freedom and justice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Struan-Stevenson-2\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-217416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Struan-Stevenson-2.jpg\" alt=\"Struan-Stevenson-2\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" \/>Struan Stevenson is the Coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change. He was a member of the European Parliament representing Scotland (1999-2014), president of the Parliament&#8217;s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14). He is an international lecturer on the Middle East and is also president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Struan Stevenson, the coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change and former president of the European Parliament&rsquo;s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14), wrote an article on the United [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,188],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-222119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blog","category-op-ed","tag-struan-stevenson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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