--- title: Why Iran Wants a Nuclear Deal description: Why Iran wants a nuclear deal, helping the victims of America's war on drugs, how Greece's entrepreneurs are surviving the crisis and more. canonical: https://time.com/3945557/why-iran-wants-a-nuclear-deal/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-03T14:50:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:40.230Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Iran Wants a Nuclear Deal og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3945557/why-iran-wants-a-nuclear-deal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Iran Wants a Nuclear Deal twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Iran Wants a Nuclear Deal by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 3, 2015 2:50 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 3, 2015 2:50 PM CUT **1\.** [**Here’s the real reason Iran wants a nuclear deal.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/07/iran-nuclear-deal-isis/397604/ "undefined") By Kathy Gilsinan in the Atlantic **2\.** [**We need a Marshall Plan for the victims of America’s War on Drugs.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Ng-bBsHrM "undefined") By Nancy Gertner at the Aspen Ideas Festival **3\.** [**Investors and entrepreneurs are getting creative to weather Greece’s crumbling economy.**](http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/02/amid-a-collapsing-economy-greek-entrepreneurs-band-together-to-keep-business-going/ "undefined") By Elmira Bayrasli in TechCrunch **4\.** [**We need a partner to stabilize Afghanistan. India is right for the job.**](http://www.cfr.org/afghanistan/why-united-states-should-work-india-stabilize-afghanistan/p36414 "undefined") By Alyssa Ayres at the Council on Foreign Relations **5\.** [**Though a cleaner source of power, hydroelectric dams drastically slash biodiversity.**](https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/hydroelectric-dams-drastically-reduce-tropical-forest-biodiversity "undefined") By the University of East Anglia  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3945557/why-iran-wants-a-nuclear-deal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3945557/why-iran-wants-a-nuclear-deal/"},"headline":"Why Iran Wants a Nuclear Deal","datePublished":"2015-07-03T14:50:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:40.230Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3945557/why-iran-wants-a-nuclear-deal/","keywords":["Innovation","Iran","Afghanistan","India","ISIS","Greece","war on drugs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3945557/why-iran-wants-a-nuclear-deal/","name":"Why Iran Wants a Nuclear Deal"}}]}] ```