WASHINGTON, DC – After months of negotiations, the United States and Iran have signed a deal meant to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is used solely for peaceful purposes.
Iranians reacted to the deal by pouring on the streets to celebrate what many hope will now be a future without crippling economic sanctions.
President Barack Obama has said the the deal blocks all ways that Iran could build an atomic bomb.
Still, not everyone is happy with the outcome.
Israel has called the deal an “historic mistake.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu said the deal would give Iran “a sure path to nuclear weapons.”
The Sunni world, including Arab countries and the Kurds, are generally opposed to what they see as US appeasement of a Shiite-dominated Iran, a country that has for many years sought to deepen its influence in the Muslim world.
Today, we will discuss why the deal proves so controversial. Who are the winners and losers of the Iran nuclear deal?
In Rudaw’s Washington studios, Namo Abdulla debates the subject with:
- Clifford D.May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Tom Z Collina, a longtime nuclear weapons expert and Policy Director at Ploughshares Fund, a US-based security foundation working to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
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