The Atlantic Council's Future of Iran Initiative and The Iran Project invite you to a symposium on the future of the Iran nuclear deal a year after its full implementation. How well is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) working? How is the JCPOA affecting US interests and actions in other parts of the region? What are the JCPOA's prospects under the Trump administration?

12:15 p.m. — Implementation of the JCPOA: Is It Working? This panel will discuss the record of the nuclear agreement as well as what needs to be done to sustain implementation and possible problems that could arise from the United States, European Union, and Iranian sides. Panelists will also discuss the consequences of a disruption or withdrawal by any of the parties. 

Featuring: Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Ellen Laipson, senior fellow and president emeritus of the Stimson Center; Caroline Vicini, Deputy Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Union to the United States; and Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program. Barbara Slavin, acting director of the Future of Iran Initiative, will moderate. 

1:30 p.m. — Keynote Address by Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn

2:30 p.m. — Regional Solutions: How Might Iran Hinder or Help? This panel will address how the JCPOA has affected Iran's role in the region as well as what policies run counter to US interests and what Iran might do to contribute to solutions to regional crises.

Featuring: Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq, and Afghanistan; Ambassador Marcelle Wahba, president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and former US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates; and Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham professor of Middle East policy studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and former US ambassador to Israel and Egypt. William Luers, director of The Iran Project, will moderate.