The Iran MOU is Worse Than it Looks
What the US-Iran Memorandum Reveals About America’s Retreat from the Middle East.
Jack Cunningham
Program Coordinator, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History
Jack Cunningham is Fellow and Assistant Professor at Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he is also Program Coordinator at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. He is a former editor of International Journal and has published on the conflict in Afghanistan, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Canadian nuclear history. He writes here in a purely personal capacity.
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