Publication

This report reflects more than two years of research by the Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force. It presents a wide range of issues related to Iran and makes a number of recommendations for the current US administration. Among these, it calls for a long-term strategy that offers the Iranian government a face-saving exit from the nuclear crisis as well as a retooling of sanctions to alleviate their impact on ordinary Iranians and to facilitate humanitarian trade and academic and cultural exchanges. The report, while retaining a military option against Iran as a last resort, also suggests a pragmatic solution to the nuclear crisis that ends with graduated relief of sanctions on oil and the Iranian Central Bank in return for verifiable curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.