{"id":235509,"date":"2021-02-26T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=235509"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:10:29","slug":"in-nuclear-matters-and-more-irans-behavior-gets-worse-while-europe-reaches-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/in-nuclear-matters-and-more-irans-behavior-gets-worse-while-europe-reaches-out\/","title":{"rendered":"In Nuclear Matters and More, Iran\u2019s Behavior Gets Worse While Europe Reaches Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Islamic Republic of Iran has been out of compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal for at least two and a half years. Supporters of the agreement may be inclined to blame that on the fact that the United States pulled out in May 2018. But there are serious questions as to whether Iran was ever really in compliance. And there is a growing body of evidence to support the previous American administration\u2019s conclusion that the deal was too weak to actually accomplish its stated goals.<\/p>\n

The most basic such goal was to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability in the near future. But commentators often overlook the fact that the preamble to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) frames that goal as part of a larger effort to reduce preexisting tensions and to facilitate peace and stability in the region and the world. That project has conclusively failed, as Iran remains a driving force behind most regional crises and has lately expanded its ballistic missile program, seized commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, and maintained its destructive influence over militant groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.<\/p>\n

In June 2018, less than two months after the first confirmed Iranian violations of the JCPOA, the Iranian regime even tried to perpetrate a terrorist attack on European soil. Early this month, the former third counsellor at the Iranian embassy in Vienna, Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, was convicted of plotting terrorist murder by a Belgian court. The evidence showed that Assadi had personally smuggled highly explosive material from Iran into Europe, then handed it off to two co-conspirators with instructions to place it as near as possible to the Iranian Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi<\/a> at a gathering<\/a> of tens of thousands of Iranian expatriates near Paris.<\/p>\n

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An Iranian diplomat convicted to 20 years imprisonment by a court in Belgium - February 2021<\/div><\/div>
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