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Poll: Iranian Public Rejects Renegotiating Nuclear Deal

by Derek Davison
Any plans that new U.S. President Donald Trump may have to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) will find little support among the Iranian people, according to a poll conducted last month and released today by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). When asked about the two concessions that Trump would be most likely to seek as part of a renegotiation, nearly 60 percent of Iranians surveyed said that they believed Tehran should not agree to extend the JCPOA’s duration and just over 70 percent said that Iran should refuse to completely dismantle its uranium enrichment program—even if Trump were to offer additional sanctions relief as an enticement.
President Trump campaigned heavily against the JCPOA in last year’s presidential race, famously calling it “the worst deal ever negotiated,” but he also suggested that he would seek to renegotiate the deal rather than simply walking away from it. He has maintained his opposition to the JCPOA since the election, even though experts in nuclear non-proliferation insist that the deal has succeeded in its aim of blocking Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon should it decide to develop one. At the same time, Trump’s nominee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, reiterated in her Senate confirmation hearing a preference to renegotiate the deal rather than terminate it. http://lobelog.com/poll-iranian-public-rejects-renegotiating-nuclear-deal/#more-37683