Iran

Varsha Koduvayur is a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where she focuses on the Gulf. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own.

For the past four years, the IAEA and the JCPOA’s supporters have treated the JCPOA as too big to fail. Yet if Iran’s behavior is any indication, the JCPOA has proven too flimsy to succeed. If the agency fails to hold Iran accountable, it is only a matter of time before further disclosures of Iranian misconduct emerge. Again.

Mr. Badran is a research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. Schanzer, a former terrorist finance analyst at the U.S. Treasury, is FDD’s senior vice president for research.

Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times.

Mark Dubowitz is the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. Prof. Brenda Shaffer is an international energy expert, and the author of the book Energy Politics, used in over 200 university courses on the geopolitics of energy.