WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE JCPOA

Q:A:Did Iran receive a $100 billion signing bonus with this deal?No. There is no signing bonus.Iran gets nothing until the IAEA verifies it has taken thethose nuclear steps and is able to repatriate some of its ownkey nuclear steps outlined under the JCPOA, aside from a locked-up money, the Treasury Department estimates thatcontinuation of the limited relief it has received under the Iran will be able to freely access slightly more than half thisJPOA for the past 18 months. If and when Iran completes amount — a little over $50 billion.Q:A:Was America negotiating from a point of weakness?No. This was a triumph of American diplomacy and U.S. leadership in theworld, backed up, as the President has said all along, by our economicand military strengths.The moral authority that comes from making a genuine effort to solve this issue diplomaticallykept the international community united with us.Q:A:Why are there secret “side” deals that Congress doesn’t know about?There are no secret “side” deals between the P5+1 and Iran.For the non-public JCPOA documents in our possession, we PMD. This agreement has two attachments (called “separatehave provided access to Congress in an appropriate setting. arrangements”), one of which is an arrangement for Parchin.And everything needed to prevent Iran from acquiring a These are not public documents. The Administration wasnuclear weapon is spelled out within the JCPOA, which is not provided them by the IAEA and therefore has not sharedpublicly available for the world to see. Separately, Iran and the them with the Congress.IAEA signed an agreement on July 14 on the way forward onQ:A:Has the United States betrayed Israel on the Iran deal?No. Our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad, and this deal is the bestway to ensure that Iran will never be able to threaten Israel with anuclear weapon.We won’t for a second take our eye off the ball on any of the anti-Israel actions and rhetoricwe see from Iran, and now we can focus on countering those without the threat of an Iraniannuclear weapon.