The Iran Deal Case Study

The Iran deal was made between Iran, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, China, Russia and France. This deal was made to limit Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. The deal that President Obama agreed to states that Iran will get sanctions relief provided by the United Nations, European Union, and the United States if they do several things. First they must give up 97 percent of their uranium stockpile which reduces their stock from 10,000kg to 300kg. They do however, still maintain the ability to stock pile the uranium quickly. The deal also states that they are required to give up two-thirds of their centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium. This leaves Iran with 5,000 centrifuges as well as another 1,000 for “research and development”. Along with the elimination of centrifuges, they had to reduce the facilities or use them for something else. Iran is also required to reduce their uranium enrichment to 3.67 which requires more uranium to power a nuclear weapon. Another part of …show more content…
If Iran deviates from the established deal the United States, United Nations, and European Union have a “snap back”. They revoke the sanctions relief they have provided Iran with. Which is no real consequence because, one, we are just taking back what we should not have given them in the first place; Two Iran has been functioning under those sanctions for years and will be able to continuing functioning with them; Third, the sanctions in no way affect the nuclear aspect of Iran but, their economic and trade status. Which brings me to another point, we are spending money on Iran that we do not have while Iran gets to make money for doing nothing. This also causes the issue of Iran gaining economic strength while slowly building up their arsenal of nuclear weapons until the deal expires in ten or so years and they can return to their formal ways of manufacturing uranium, only this time with a better