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In 2013, the nuclear crisis was still far from resolved, and Iran has continued to press forward with its nuclear program. Even taking into account the dramatic developments since Rouhani was elected president and the biting effect of economic sanctions that have pushed him to negotiate, our question this year nevertheless remains basically the same as last year’s question: namely, is there a real prospect for resolution of this ongoing crisis in the coming months. Continued nuclear advances bring Iran’s nuclearization ever closer to a fait accompli that the international community will no longer be able to stop. Hence the urgency of the situation, which prompts us to focus our analysis more specifically on the question of whether this year has moved the dynamics toward decision, or whether it is yet another year in which the Iranian nuclear crisis has muddled through and been kicked on to the next year.