Our new president will face many tough challenges in devising a strategy to assure America's security. He will be the first since who will not have to immediately devise a strategy to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. The nuclear agreement with Iran provides strong assurance that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon for at least 15 years. Iran without a nuclear weapon is far less threatening to Israel, the region and the U.
This ground breaking agreement does not by any means suggest that Iran will disappear as a concern for the U. While U. Whether America's relations with Iran will be confrontational or cooperative depends on how we both choose to deal with the issues between us. Here are four ways the Trump administration could keep relations steady.
It has done so up until now based on all reports from International Atomic Energy Agency, which inspects Iran's entire nuclear program regularly and intensively.
Get smart opinions on the topics North Texans care about. Or with:. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The new U. Continue to seek common objectives with Iran and others to establish a cease fire in Syria and work toward an interim government, a new constitution and elections. There is no military solution to that proxy-supported civil war. Political cooperation between the U. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran is one of the most important non-proliferation agreements in decades.
It can serve as a model for setting new world standards for better control of uranium enrichment. This includes limits on the amount and quality of enriched material and the number and quality of centrifuges used to enrich it. Such an arrangement would meet Trump's goal of tightening the Iran deal by instituting these limitations for all countries, beginning with the P5 declared nuclear states, on a permanent, not year, basis.
