Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityWhy Engagement, Come What May, Is the Best Policy for Dealing with IranByGraham Flaspoehler and CSIS PONIPublished Apr 8, 2015After sixteen months of negotiations, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached April 2, 2015 is an exceptional milestone in the thirty-six years of fraught relations between the West and the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, according to a statement delivered by President Obama outlining the JCPOA, “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” and plenty of hazards exist along the way to reaching an eventual comprehensive agreement by the current talks’ stated deadline of June 30th.