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Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/iran-wins-points-article-1.1528206
Iran Wins on Points
(New York Daily News) Aaron David Miller - Does Iran want a deliverable nuclear weapon? Sure it does. The idea that the mullahs have abandoned permanently their quest to acquire a nuclear weapons capacity or that any agreement - interim or final - will provide ironclad assurances that they have done so is an illusion. Unless Iran crosses the President's redline of actually acquiring a nuclear weapon, the Obama administration is going to go to extreme lengths to avoid attacking Iran. When Kerry is congratulating Javad Zarif, Iran's top negotiator, on a Geneva agreement and there's little to celebrate with Bibi, you know the Iranians have scored more than a few points. Let's hope the U.S. and the other members of the P5+1 can do better the next time around. The writer, a vice president at the Wilson Center, is a former adviser to U.S. secretaries of state on the Middle East.