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There has been a renewed focus on the Iran nuclear deal, including a debate in the House of Commons at the end of June this year. STEVE BISHOP assesses the prospects for a new agreement with Iran and the implications of failure to reach a deal
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks in a news briefing at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, on June 11, 2022
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THE House of Commons debate on June 30 this year, on Iran’s nuclear deal, was opened by Robert Jenrick MP and set the terms of the debate in the context of Iran’s potential to develop nuclear weapons and what Jenrick referred to as Iran’s “other destabilising activities in the region.”
Earlier in June, Britain, Germany and France had released a joint statement saying that they were ready to conclude a deal with Iran.
That would have restored the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the basis of the Iran nuclear deal which held until May 2018, when the United States unilaterally walked away from the agreement.
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