No one can take away the miraculous achievements and years of dedicated service to the security of Israel at A., the outgoing deputy chief of Mossad.
After all, A. played a vital role in this effort, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, members of the National Security Council and other Israeli defense officials.
Israel and Mossad did everything they could to get the US to abandon the agreement. Netanyahu’s display of archives stolen from Iran’s AMAD project was just the push needed to convince then-president Donald Trump that the entire compromise was based on lies and deception and that he had to walk away from it as fast as he could.
Unfortunately, U.S. President Joe Biden’s team is now working hard to return to this horrific deal.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showcases the Iranian archives released from their AMAD Project
(Photo: Orel Cohen)
Israel and its allies are willing to enter into an agreement, but only if the problems with the 2015 treaty are addressed. It is simply impossible to return to the original treaty.
Without getting into a faulty game, I do not accept study A. There are clear facts that show how the current situation is different from the 2015 situation. , emphasizing why the agreement should not have been signed then and why it should not be revisited today.
One of those facts is Iran’s advancement of its nuclear program from 2018, as well as new findings such as weapons development seen in the leak of AMAD archives and in reports from the UN over the past two years. Similarly, there is much more.
To sign the treaty with America to withdraw from it three years later, Iran has pushed all the lifting of restrictions that the treaty uses to push its uranium enrichment forward. , strengthening its technological capabilities and advanced percentages production.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said Tehran has yet to answer questions regarding the development of weapons systems unveiled in 2018 thanks to the archive leak.
Continued production of advanced centrifuges (permitted by the 2015 treaty) essentially allows Iran to go underground with their operations. It later emerged that the treaty did not pay attention to the storage of materials and production methods, which led to an error in the time it would take for Iran to reach a nuclear point.
Iran has discovered the technologically advanced methods needed to produce weapons-grade products, regardless of what the 2015 contract said.
Banning Israel’s behavior or how Trump withdrew from the deal is unusual. As Netanyahu warned then and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is doing now, Iran is only months or even weeks away from the bombing.
Returning to the 2015 contract will allow Tehran to install new advanced infrastructure at its hidden facilities and get enough rich uranium needed for the bomb. There is no way back to the old box.
The decision to suspend the investigation of possible Iranian military assets as part of the agreement was another major mistake. Today it is clear that Tehran has confirmed that this clause has been introduced.
Today’s findings show that Iran’s road to receiving the bomb was much smoother than originally expected. Unsurprisingly, the IAEA did not find this, as it was not possible for them.
The DA group’s tight checks were the single most stable and effective tool of the deal, but Tehran’s behavior over the past few months and joint report shelves with Germany, France and the UK show that even these studies were useless.
That report was launched so as not to undermine Iran’s ability to return to talks with the United States.
The Islamic Republic’s breaches were not directly against the 2015 treaty, but against the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, jeopardizing the sovereignty of the IAEA as a whole.
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An Iranian clergyman stands beside missiles and soldiers at an undisturbed place in Iran
(Photo: AP)
As we all predicted, the agreement failed, but not because of Israel, but because the agreement did not achieve the goals it wanted to achieve.
It is clear that the old contract can no longer achieve these goals. The suggestions about getting back to it and updating it down the road are a very poor judgment.
Ioran has no incentive to return to conversations after giving such a broken and one-sided gift.
Brig. Gen. (res.) An t-Oll. Jacob Nagel is a senior at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) and a visiting professor at the Technos Aerospace Engineering Faculty. Nagel was a civil servant officer (IDF, Ministry of Defense and Prime Minister’s Office) for more than 40 years, including time as national security adviser to the prime minister.