Washington, D.C. – A mutual compliance-for-compliance return to the JCPOA is now the official position of the new Biden administration and has slowly become the consensus position among its allies in Congress. However, proponents of the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign hope that a barrier stands in the way of a clean return to the deal: a “sanctions wall” that the architects of Trump’s Iran policy created explicitly to stymie a JCPOA return. Trump’s Treasury Department targeted entities subject to nuclear-related sanctions relief under the Obama administration with duplictive terrorism designations. They said this double layer could create a “sanctions wall of political and market deterrence” to undermine a future administration’s ability to relieve sanctions. But on closer examination, their efforts created less a “wall,” but more a transparent edifice built on political calculations.
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