Iran Nuclear Agreement

The Iran nuclear agreement was a major victory for national and global security. Negotiated by the US and other world powers, the agreement stopped an Iranian bomb from being developed without starting a new war in the Middle East. Civil society played a critical role in this historic victory.

President Trump has violated the agreement, but the fight isn’t over. The landmark 2015 agreement remains fragile even though it’s working, keeping both US troops and the world safer. As former Secretary of State John Kerry warned, the re-imposition of sanctions could cause the landmark accord to unravel. In the face of these challenges, Ploughshares Fund and its grantees are working harder than ever to protect this important accord from those who seek to undermine it.

Latest News and Analysis on the Ongoing Struggle to Defend the Iran Nuclear Agreement

  • Nuclear Experts Offer Draft Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty

    A panel of nuclear experts yesterday presented a proposed version of a long-awaited international treaty to ban the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.  President Barack Obama said last month that establishing a cutoff treaty would be one of the "concrete steps toward a

    May 12, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • NIAC commends Obama for diplomatic strategy in Iran

    The Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council (NIAC), along with twenty peace and security organizations, issued a joint letter commending the White House for its diplomatic strategy for engaging Iran.

    May 6, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Increased pill sales indicate Kuwaitis' fear of nuclear accident in Iran

    A North Carolina-based company called Nukepills.com reports selling more than five million doses of its potassium iodide pills, intended to protect against carcinogenic nuclear fallout, to Kuwait in recent months.  Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Reactor sits 150 miles from the coast of Kuwait.

    April 24, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Calls for reporter's release

    President Obama denied that an Iranian-American journalist was a spy and demanded her release, after she was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage.  Reporter Roxana Saberi was convicted by an Iranian revolutionary court of spying for the United States during a closed-door trial.

    April 19, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Maine NPR

    Joseph Cirincione discusses nuclear proliferation and disarmament with Maine's NPR station WPBN.

    April 17, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione

  • U.S. looks at dropping key Iran provision

    The Obama administration and European allies may shift strategy toward Iran, dropping American insistence that Tehran shut down nuclear facilities during early phases of negotiations over its atomic program.  Matthew Bunn of the Ploughshares-f

    April 13, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Iran may claim nuclear advance as U.S. announces direct participation in talks

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced "from now on," the U.S. would take part directly in international talks with Iran over its nuclear activities.

    April 9, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Trita Parsi: Netanyahu and the threat of bombing Iran

    In an article for the Huffington Post, Trita Parsi of the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council discusses Israel’s warning that it will stop Iran if the U.S.

    April 8, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • Chinese firm indicted in sales to Iran

    A Manhattan grand jury indicted a Chinese executive and his company on charges of covertly using U.S. banks to finance the sale of tons of restricted materials to Iran in violation of U.N.

    April 8, 2009 - By Sarah Brown

  • U.S. may accept Iran's uranium enrichment

    U.S. officials are considering whether to accept Iran’s pursuit of uranium enrichment, which was outlawed by the UN and remains at the heart of fears that Iran seeks nuclear weapons capability.  Mark Fitzpatrick of the Ploughshares-funded International Institute for Strategic Studies said, “There’s a fundamental impasse between the western demand for no enrichment and the Iranian demand to continue enrichment.” The process can produce both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade material. Trita Parsi of the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council commented, “There is a growing recognition in [Washington] that the zero [enrichment] solution, though still favored, simply is unfeasible.”

    April 4, 2009 - By Sarah Brown