US Energy Secretary Calls JCPOA Strongest Non-Proliferation Agreement

Moniz said on Monday that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Tehran and six world powers is “the strongest nonproliferation agreement, I think, that has ever been negotiated”.

“After 15 years, Iran will have all its prerogatives to develop a peaceful (nuclear) program, but again, we have a strong verification provision that will continue beyond that,” he said as quoted by The Brown Daily Herald.

Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) reached the nuclear deal on July 14, 2015 and started implementing it on January 16.

The comprehensive nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), terminated all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran.