The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action five years on: Legal questions and future prospects

‘The dynamic of action and reaction’ and the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal

1. Introduction The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – a 159-page agreement reached by Iran with the E3/EU+3 (China, the Russian Federation, the United State, France, Germany, the United Kingdom with the European Union) in July 2015[1] and later endorsed by the UN Security Council[2] – seemed to conclude a decade of international tensions...

A U.S. return to the JCPOA: Complications moving forward and the JCPOA’s mechanisms to resolve them

1. Introduction On May 8, 2018, the United States announced that it would cease its participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (‘JCPOA’) – the accord between the United States, other major world powers, and Iran with respect to Iran’s nuclear program – and would re-impose those ‘nuclear-related’ sanctions that had previously been removed...