Over the past month, I’ve quoted responses from around the world, pro and con, about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran, aka “the deal.” You can find a compendium of previous Iran-related items here.
In honor of the new month, and of the Atlantic’s new Notes feature, I’m shifting the reader-mail part of this discussion to the Notes section. You can find the opening installment here. Subsequent discussions will be linked and collated there, using a new Notes-specific threading feature.
What’s that map doing at the top of this post? It show oil-pipeline routes in and out of Central Asia, and suggests why the re-integration of Iran into the world economic system could have surprisingly profound effects. That’s the subject of the first reader-message included in that Notes dispatch.
This article was originally published at http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/the-iran-debate-rolls-on-from-kazahkstan-to-north-america/402868/
