Not only did the JCPOA fail to moderate the regime in any way, Rouhani and the IRGC appear to have doubled down on their violent expansion agenda.
Crown Prince Abdullah, the kingdom's de facto ruler, has tried to moderate the regime's authoritarianism and cautiously open it to faint breezes of democracy like proposed elections for municipal councils.
Although the nuclear negotiations are not directly linked to Iran's worrying human rights record, many believe that an agreement could increase Rouhani's influence over social and judicial practices, moderating the character of the regime.
Finding a way to moderate the Baathist regime and easing Assad out should be a dual track.
Four impoundments were created on the river system under the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for power generation during the 1950s, which moderated the flow regime.
Legal solutions have in this context been primarily based upon liability regimes, moderating the risks of excluding third parties from accessing the technologies.
The more moderate the regimes, like the Shah's Iran in 1979 or Hosni Mubarak's Egypt, the easier to overthrow.
But in the past two years, despite the Obama Administration's belief, which we heard directly more than once, that the accord would "moderate" Iranian behavior and strengthen the "moderates in the regime," the inescapable reality is that, as we predicted at the time, the opposite has happened.
He replaced Gen. Khin Nyunt, who was ousted by army hard-liners and charged with corruption in what was seen as a victory over moderates in the regime.
This was all part of a misguided effort to reach out to "moderates" in the regime, an effort that accomplished nothing but gave Iran the time it needed to commence and advance its nuclear development.
