Diplomacy Over Coercion: The European Union’s Role In Managing Iran’s Nuclear Program – OpEd

Iran’s interest in nuclear technology dates back approximately six decades to the period of the Shah’s era, when the United States and Iran concluded a nuclear cooperation agreement under which Washington committed to providing Tehran with a range of nuclear technologies, including a research reactor. Despite Iran inking the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state in 1968 and endorsing it 1970, the Shah may have had nuclear weapons motivations. Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979...