PODCAST: Journalist Laura Rozen on the Demise of the Iran Nuclear Deal and What Comes Next? Mark Leon Goldberg May 9, 2018 No journalist covered the ins and outs of the negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal as closely as Laura Rozen. She is a reporter with the middle east news website Al Monitor and in the negotiations that lead up to the July 2015 deal, her reporting and h...
Withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal Undermines Everything Else the United States is Trying To Accomplish at the Security Council Mark Leon Goldberg May 8, 2018 The Iran nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is not just a deal between the United States and Iran. Rather it is a multilateral deal involving seven countries: The USA, Iran, China, Russia, the UK, France and Germany. Fiv...
Donald Trump’s Decertification of the Iran Nuclear Deal Would Put the United States in a Uniquely Awkward — and Dangerous — Diplomatic Pickle Mark Leon Goldberg October 10, 2017 President Trump is widely expected to "decertify" the Iran nuclear deal this week. According to press reports, he will contend that continuing with the deal is not in the national security interests of the United States (despite his top generals explicitely st...
Podcast: Former Senator Sam Nunn Explains How a New “Fuel Bank” Can Curb Nuclear Proliferation Mark Leon Goldberg August 28, 2017 The world may just have gotten a little bit safer. In Kazakstan this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency is opening a new facility that will serve as a bank for Low Enriched Uranium. If it works at intended, fewer countries around the world wil...
Episode 145: Vali Nasr Mark Leon Goldberg April 10, 2017 Vali Nasr was born in Iran, where his father was a high profile academic and university administrator Then came the revolution. They fled--and that traumatic experience, he says, shaped his intellectual development in ways he is only beginning to understa...
The IAEA Faces Big Budget Pressures Mark Leon Goldberg July 20, 2015 Despite it's high profile, the International Atomic Energy Agency suffers from some of the same funding challenges as many UN agencies. Now that it is at the heart of the Iran nuclear deal, will its member states ease up on the budgetary pressure under which t...
The IAEA and Iran: How Inspections Work Mark Leon Goldberg July 16, 2015 The nuclear deal with Iran is essentially grand bargain: Iran agreed to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for a gradual easing of international and national sanctions. But as President Obama is fond of saying, the agreement is not based on trust. It'...
Here’s How the IAEA Will Keep Tabs on Iran Mark Leon Goldberg July 14, 2015 An Iran nuclear deal has been struck. It's a highly technical agreement that asks a great deal from the United Nations--specifically from the International Atomic Energy Agency. If the IAEA is able to verify compliance, sanctions will be lifted. If the IAE...
