Bennett Ramberg: A failing nuclear treaty with Russia shows the right way to deal with Iran
A security personnel asks reporters to leave a room where US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) is meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (2nd R) at a hotel in Vienna, Austria on July 1.
As diplomats in Vienna race to meet the new July 7 deadline for an Iran nuclear deal, U.S. officials in Washington are grappling with how to save another arms-control accord - the Soviet-U.S. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty - from falling apart. At first blush, there seems little in common between the Iran talks and a recent State Department report saying Moscow is still violating the nuclear weapons treaty. But a closer look provokes troubling questions about the Iranian agreement's durability.
