United States Policy Over The Iran Nuclear Deal

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In this essay I will explain the current United States policy over the Iran Nuclear Deal, I will explain the goal of this foreign policy and why this current policy fails to achieve this goal. I will then suggest an alternative policy and how my alternative policy meets the United States foreign policy goal. Lastly I will discuss strength for my alternative policy, as well as two weaknesses.
This American foreign policy describes the time frame in which Iran can obtain nuclear materials as well as aims to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. This policy addresses seven key areas centrifuges, uranium enrichment, breakout time, the Fordow facility, research and development, inspections, and lastly sanctions lifted.
First, Centrifuges are tube-shaped machines used to enrich uranium, the material necessary for nuclear power and nuclear bombs. Iran would have to reduce its total of about 19,000 centrifuges, 10,000 of which are still spinning today, down to 6,104 under the deal, with only 5,060 allowed to enrich uranium over the next ten years (Bradner 2015). Second, Iran’s centrifuges will only enrich uranium to 3.67%, enough for civil use to provide energy to parts of the country, but not enough to build a nuclear bomb. Iran will reduce its current stockpile of 10,000 kilograms of low-enriched uranium to 300 kilograms for 15 years (Bradner 2015). “Iran has agreed to limit uranium enrichment and ship its uranium fuel overseas for 10 years. Iran agreed to a 15-year ban on processing fuel that is close to being bomb grade” (Dorell 2015). Third, the breakout time, which is the period of time that it would take for Iran to acquire the material it needs to make one nuclear weapon, would be extended to one year under the deal, and wo...

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...urrent United States foreign policy over the Iran Nuclear Deal and how this current foreign policy fails to achieve the goal of making an Iranian nuclear bomb more difficult. In this essay I first explained what the current United States foreign policy over the Iran Nuclear Deal is, I also explained what the goal for this foreign policy is and why this current policy failed to achieve the goal. Second, I suggested an alternative policy and how this alternative policy meets the United States foreign policy goals. Third, I discussed the strengths for my alternative policy, as well as two weaknesses. Lastly, I concluded that the current United States foreign policy over the Iran Nuclear Deal should not be used in the United States, rather the alternative policy that I suggested is a more reliable policy, which would guarantee Iran would not use any nuclear materials.

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