What is your evaluation of the Iran nuclear deal? Has Iran honored the agreement?

The Iran nuclear deal is a multinational agreement reached between Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, namely the United States, Russia, France, China and the United Kingdom, as well as Germany, after prolonged negotiations. According to this deal, Iran would limit its production of nuclear weapon materials in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions against it. The deal is thus seen as a paradigm of the settlement of major, sensitive international issues through peaceful negotiations by the international community.

Based on considerable effort and compromises on various sides, the deal has enabled all parties to reach their basic and paramount objectives. The United States and Europe have managed to limit Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons, while Iran has alleviated some of the sanctions so that it can again become economically and politically involved with the rest of the world. This deal is thus widely viewed as mutually beneficial for all sides, helping to mitigate the possibility of massive military conflicts in the Middle East and curtailing nuclear proliferation for the good of the world, as well as regional peace and stability.

After the deal took effect in January 2016, the International Atomic Energy Agency conducted 11 inspections at Iran’s nuclear facilities, attesting that Iran was honoring the agreement, as did the relevant agencies in Europe and the United States.