Elections for the Islamic Consultative Assembly and Assembly of Experts are scheduled for 26 February 2016. Although moderates in Iran hope to expedite implementation of the agreement in order to secure sanction relief before the election, the US has estimated that implementation may take as long as six months (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-mechanism-behind-the-iran-nuclear-deal-goes-into-motion/2015/10/18/b69d0fba-8d4d-404a-ba40-ff5930b54908_story.html , http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal-sanctions.html ). For more information on the timeline of the agreement, see http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/07/21-comprehensive-timeline-iran-nuclear-deal , http://csis.org/ppp/index.htm, http://www.eeas.europa.eu/statements-eeas/docs/iran_agreement/annex_5_implementation_plan_en.pdf .