US President Donald Trump signed a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles in France on Wednesday, ending nearly four months of war and opening a 60-day window to negotiate a final peace deal.
Trump has called the agreement "the exact opposite of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) disaster," referring to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack Obama, which Trump walked out of in 2018. But arms control experts and foreign policy analysts are pointing to an uncomfortable parallel: the new agreement commits both sides to begin negotiating the very nuclear questions the JCPOA had already resolved.
