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E-book Beyond Nuclear Ambiguity : The Iranian Nuclear Crisis and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
he Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action attempted to end this trend by limiting Iran’s nuclear program only to peaceful goals and by creating an unprecedented inspection mechanism. In other words, the nuclear deal tried to go beyond the previous history of nuclear ambiguity. As mentioned previously, the thesis will address the trajectory of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuclear program (1957) to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (2015). The first chapter will open with a brief overview on the history of the Iranian nuclear ambitions and the ambiguous shift toward military purposes. Developed with the key assis-tance of the West, under Mohamad Reza Shah, the nuclear program faced a significant development. However, the nuclear projects were dismantled after the Islamic Revolution (1978-1979), then resumed during the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) and enhanced with military dimensions during the Rafsanjani (1989-1997) and Khatami Administrations (1997-2005).The second chapter of the dissertation will focus on the primary source of nuclear ambiguity. It will provide some the basis of nuclear energy and describe the stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. Given the technicality of the issue, some of the basic notions (e.g. nuclear fission, enrichment or repro-cessing), as well as the related facilities (e.g. research reactor, enrichment facility or heavy-water reactor) need to be embedded within an essen-tial scientific background. Such an unusual perspective will enable the reader to have a better understanding of the specific issues of the nuclear negotiations and to critically assess the developments of the Iranian crisis.The third chapter will address the second source of ambiguity, which is the international regime of non-proliferation. As it will be widely dis-cussed, the original legal framework was the result of compromise be-tween nuclear and non-nuclear weapon States and was designed with several flaws. These legal constraints were exploited by Iran, contribut-ing in part to the nuclear crisis.
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