1st Edition

Uncertain Future The JCPOA and Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Programmes

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

In July 2015, eight parties – France, Germany and the United Kingdom, together with the European Union and China, Russia and the United States on the one side, and Iran on the other – adopted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal. Under the agreement, Iran accepted limits to its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief. Hailed by some as a... Read more
Introduction Mark Fitzpatrick

1. Assessing the JCPOA Mark Fitzpatrick

2. The Procurement Channel Paulina Izewicz

3. Evaluating Design Intent in Iran’s Ballistic-missile Programme Mark Fitzpatrick and Michael Elleman

Conclusions

Biography

Mark Fitzpatrick is an associate fellow at the IISS. Until the end of 2018, he was Executive Director of IISS–Americas and director of the Institute’s Non-proliferation and Nuclear Policy Programme.  Prior to joining IISS in 2005, he was a career US Foreign Service Officer.

Michael Elleman is Senior Fellow for Missile Defence at the IISS and the principal author of the IISS Strategic Dossier Iran’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities: A net assessment. He previously worked as a missile expert for weapons inspection missions in Iraq and spent two decades as a scientist at Lockheed Martin.

Paulina Izewicz is a Senior Research Associate with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Until spring 2018, she managed programmatic work on sanctions and led a Track 1.5 dialogue with Iran for the IISS.