Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityWaiting for Washington: U.S. clarity and guidance are vital to the JCPOAByMinsu Crowder-Han and CSIS PONIPublished Jun 14, 2016While it is often difficult to parse reasonable criticisms from Iran’s standard litany of anti-U.S. rhetoric, complaints that the United States is not upholding its end of the deal are not entirely unfounded. It has long been understood that the bulk of the new trade and investment that Iran could expect under the JCPOA would not come from the United States, given the extensive web of U.S. sanctions that would remain in place, but from Europe, Russia, and China.