Don't miss this Iran Deal forum
HEAR:
Trita Parsi: Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston
Sargent Commons, 5th Floor
Wednesday, November 1 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Through the Iran Deal, the international community achieved a landmark victory for non-proliferation by establishing an agreement from Iran to allow intrusive inspection of its nuclear facilities to allay fears by the US and others that Iran was developing nuclear weapons in return for relief from damaging sanctions. This agreement has been praised across the globe.
Trita Parsi will speak about his new book Losing an Enemy – Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy regarding the success of the Iran Deal and how it is now at risk under the Trump Administration. He will sign copies after the talk.
Dr. Parsi is the President of the largest Iranian-American grassroots organization in the US, the National Iranian American Council, and has taught at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. He currently teaches at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
For the Suffolk event, a donation of $10 is requested to help cover costs, from those not part of the Suffolk community; no one will be turned away. Dr. Parsi will also speak at Tufts University at 2:30 pm the same day; check our website for room number.
The Iran nuclear deal – formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – has been under attack by President Trump and his supporters. Trump has threatened to decertify it, even though on fully eight occasions the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has confirmed Iran’s compliance with the terms of the JCPOA.
Following two years of negotiations, the JCPOA was signed in July 2015 by diplomats from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran, and endorsed by a Security Council resolution. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini declared that according to the agreement, "Under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire nuclear weapons."
More recently, Mogherini declared at a meeting at the United Nations secretariat in September and on a PBS New Hour segment on October 11 that decertifying the JCPOA would backfire on the U.S., as it would be isolated internationally and regarded as an unreliable partner that could not be trusted with agreements. She added that the European Union, Russia, China, and other international partners would abide by the JCPOA no matter what the Trump Administration decided, but that reneging on a Security Council resolution would seriously damage America’s reputation.
While this decertification does land a significant blow to the deal, it does not automatically bring it to an end. Congress will have 60 days to vote on legislation to re-impose sanctions waived under the nuclear agreement. If this passes, then the deal is very likely dead. Indications are that this vote could be very close.
For peace and diplomacy,
Prof. Valentine M. Moghadam
Massachusetts Peace Action Middle East Working Group |
Visit our website to learn more about joining the organization or donating to Massachusetts Peace Action!
We thank you for the financial support that makes this work possible.
Massachusetts Peace Action, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-354-2169 • info@masspeaceaction.org
617-354-2169 • info@masspeaceaction.org
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MAPA Nuclear Disarmament" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mapa-nuclear-disarmament+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to mapa-nuclear-disarmament@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mapa-nuclear-disarmament/MWHPR08MB2768C6DDCBCF5E41791FA688B2440%40MWHPR08MB2768.namprd08.prod.outlook.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
No comments:
Post a Comment