WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE JCPOA

IdahoNegotiations Produced Nuclear Agreement,Not Iranageddon“Movies are not real. The characters in movies are not real. John Wayne was not MarionMorrison’s real name. So maybe candidates trying to become the leader of the freeworld should stop implying that America should be more like John Wayne and justwhip those Iranian Ayatollahs into submission. On July 13, after decades of noncommunication,years of punishing sanctions, and months of intense negotiations,Iran and America signed an agreement in which Iran will roll back its nuclear weaponsdevelopment capability in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. The agreementis 80 pages long. Each word has been negotiated. It covers complicated requirementsand has serious implications for the future of the Middle East, as well as American-Iranian relations. Congress has approximately 60 days to accept or reject it. Both Iranand the U.S. will see internal opposition. The sanctions brought Iranian negotiatorsto the table. They found a willing partner in President Obama, who demonstrated hisunderstanding of the community-organizing trope that there are no permanent friendsor permanent enemies.”– Idaho Mountain Express, 7/17/15IllinoisThe Long-Awaited Iranian Nuclear Deal Finalized On Tuesday Appears To BeThe Very Best – And Most Certainly The Only Realistic – Shot At Preventing IranFrom Developing A Nuclear Weapon“The long-awaited Iranian nuclear deal finalized on Tuesday appears to be the verybest – and most certainly the only realistic – shot at preventing Iran from developinga nuclear weapon. The fine print matters tremendously, of course. Over the next 60days, Congress must pore over the agreement negotiated with the United States,China, Russia, France, Great Britain and Germany, scrutinizing a deal that the Obamaadministration promises is built not on trust but on verification. If that basic idealbears out, and we have confidence it will given the frameworks that preceded it and thenations that negotiated it, Congress must not stand in the way of a historic deal that wasunthinkable just a few years ago.”– Chicago Sun-Times, 7/14/15