JCPOA Crisis: Balance of Power Returns

... material base that could be used in its nuclear programme. Precise information here is also lacking. However, Iran is a large country, and with the political will, its intellectual, scientific, and industrial resources could be sufficient to acquire nuclear weapons in the future. In pursuing this course, Tehran may well look to the experience of the DPRK. Pyongyang found itself under the harshest UN Security Council sanctions, compounded by unilateral measures introduced by the US and other Western ...