JCPOA

JCPOA woes: Trump threatens ‘strongest’ sanctions on Iran ever

Alexandre Hawari/May 22, 2018May 22, 2018

Weeks after Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has threatened to impose some of the strongest sanctions on Iran. Terming them as ‘strongest in history’, Pompeo has urged Iran to immediately stop its missile tests, halt its entire nuclear programs and to withdraw its…

Politics

Why Arab world is sceptic over the future of JCPOA

Alexandre Hawari/April 17, 2018

By Gareth Smyth In the same week during which US President Donald Trump replaced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo, the Saudi cabinet approved its first national nuclear program on March 13, with 16 reactors costing $80 billion. While Riyadh has stressed the diversification of energy sources and its acceptance of…