UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — The long-term implications of the U.S.-Iran deal

Question 1

The 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding builds on the architecture of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which itself was endorsed by which one of the following UN Security Council resolutions?

Accepted Answer

UNSC Resolution 2231 (2015)

Answer

UNSC Resolution 1929 (2010)

Answer

UNSC Resolution 2375 (2017)

Answer

UNSC Resolution 1737 (2006)

Question 2

Verification and monitoring of Iran's nuclear-related commitments — a core deliverable under any successor agreement to the 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran MoU — is mandated to be carried out by which one of the following bodies?

Accepted Answer

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Answer

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

Answer

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Answer

Conference on Disarmament (CD)

Question 3

In the context of the outstanding negotiation items under the 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran MoU, the term 'Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)' refers to uranium that has been enriched to which one of the following thresholds of the fissile isotope U-235?

Accepted Answer

20% or more

Answer

0.7% or more

Answer

3% to 5%

Answer

90% or more

Question 4

Under the 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran MoU, how many days has been earmarked as the negotiation window for resolving outstanding issues — Iran's HEU stockpile, uranium enrichment rights, ballistic missile programme, and the timing and scope of sanctions relief — before the framework lapses?

Accepted Answer

60 days

Answer

30 days

Answer

45 days

Answer

90 days

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — The long-term implications of the U.S.-Iran deal

Q1. The 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding builds on the architecture of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which itself was endorsed by which one of the following UN Security Council resolutions?

Q2. Verification and monitoring of Iran's nuclear-related commitments — a core deliverable under any successor agreement to the 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran MoU — is mandated to be carried out by which one of the following bodies?

Q3. In the context of the outstanding negotiation items under the 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran MoU, the term 'Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)' refers to uranium that has been enriched to which one of the following thresholds of the fissile isotope U-235?

Q4. Under the 14 June 2026 U.S.-Iran MoU, how many days has been earmarked as the negotiation window for resolving outstanding issues — Iran's HEU stockpile, uranium enrichment rights, ballistic missile programme, and the timing and scope of sanctions relief — before the framework lapses?