JCPOA is coming back. We think. It is really a horrible acronym, but this is an initiative to take the temperature down a bit in Middle East (no, it is not climate change). Let us quickly recap. JCPOA stand for ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’ and was an initiative led by Obama. The background is the Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons. The Iranian efforts were getting closer to enriching nuclear material to weapon-grade amounts. However, these efforts were set back considerable by a ‘mysterious’ virus that infected the mainframe controlling the centrifuges. Somehow, the centrifuges (needed for enrichment) managed to spin themselves to death. Oh Dear. And that set it back by a few years. (The virus was Styx, look it up and be amazed – we wonder which nation state could have developed such a sophisticated virus). In comes the current Iranian President, Rouhani. All of this is back in 2013-2015. Sure enough, the Iranian economy is not going well with sanctions (because of the nuclear developments) biting. There is only one way of getting the country going: negotiate the nuclear developments. And that is where JCPOA comes in.
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