Can Iran’s New President Revive The Nuclear Deal With Washington?

July 6 saw Masoud Pezeshkian announced as the new president of Iran, following the death in a helicopter crash of his predecessor Ebrahim Raisi on 19 May. The surprise new president won on a campaign based on the idea of resuscitating the ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’ (JCPOA, or colloquially ‘the nuclear deal’) to prompt the removal of international sanctions against Iran. It is the same idea that won former President Hassan Rouhani the top job in 2013 and again in 2017, during which the JCPOA was created and then…