A Last Chance for Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Most Democrats have been supportive of diplomacy, and if Trump gets on board, Republicans might as well.
45% : The European initiatives of the early 2000s led to short-term suspensions of Iranian nuclear activities and, when these failed to take root in the long term, compelled Russia and China to support UN sanctions.
44% : That is why the 2015 nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), focused on preventing nuclear material acquisition rather than on weaponization equipment or missiles.
41% : Yet if Trump himself agrees to a new deal, Iran may believe that it will stand.
37% : This assumes, of course, that Washington's strikes would go far enough to ultimately succeed in preventing Iranian nuclear weaponization.
28% : Trump has shown interest in what he describes as a "simple" deal to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but the terms of any deal would have to be complex to have much effect.
27% : But Trump is well positioned to engineer a replacement precisely because he killed the last deal.
26% : Trump did not respond to Iran's many attacks on U.S. forces and the energy infrastructure of U.S. allies, despite his pledges to act.

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