In 2018 the Trump administration repudiated the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear agreement, and replaced its participation in this international treaty with a policy of “maximum pressure”, which some believed would compel Iran to accep..
Ali Vaez
Ali Vaez is the International Crisis Group`s Senior Analyst, Iran. Before joining Crisis Group, he headed the Iran project at the Federation of American Scientists. Trained as a scientist, Vaez has more than a decade of experience in journalism. Vaez was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University from 2008 to 2010 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva and a master`s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.