Renegotiating The Iran Deal.

The international community is about to learn the crucial lesson that as difficult it is to reach a deal, it is perhaps much more cumbersome to re-enter an agreement that was previously set aside on bad terms. After Joe Biden took on the US presidency in 2020, it was assumed that it would reverse what was perhaps one of the most damaging aspects of the Trump doctrine: the throwaway of the Iran nuclear deal.

However, the international community is learning that this is something not so easy to do, and certainly, the same circumstances and limits cannot be imposed again as the world is widely different now than it was at the time the deal was set in place. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran's nuclear programme is 'galloping ahead', which might be a 'fatal blow' to chances of reviving the deal following 2018's pull-out by the United States.

It speaks to the failures of the relevant security regimes that such damages had not been predicted. Firstly, it appears evident that with the lack of any incentives, Iran would continue with any nuclear programme, and perhaps more aggressively. There has been the arrival of a new government in...