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Author Archives: Xavier Villar

Posted inOpinion

Iran snapback row exposes cracks in shifting global order

by Xavier Villar October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

In a political moment marked by the short but intense 12-day war between Iran and Israel, global attention has been reignited on a mechanism that is at once technical and profoundly political: the so-called “snapback,” the legal and strategic axis of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed in 2015 by Iran and the […]

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