Notes
1 COVID statistics were compiled from Johns Hopkins University Corona Virus Resource Center set up in March 2020 and updated daily for all countries. The statistics for Israel, 310,000 in mid-October, exclude the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which had a combined total of 52,000 confirmed cases in mid-October. All figures from JHU Corona Virus Resource Center, available online at: coronavirus.jhu.edu; last accessed October 27, 2020.
2 The full title of the agreement is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
3 On the MKO assassinations of Americans in Iran during the early 1970s, see Ervand Abrahamian (1989) The Iranian Mojahedin (New Haven: Yale University Press), pp. 140-141; on the continuing impact of these assassinations on US security thinking over 30-plus years and long after the group had sought refuge in neighboring Iraq, see Jeremiah Goulka, Lydia Hansell, Elizabeth Wilke and Judith Larson (2009) The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum (Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation).