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Source: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/dreams-deal-iran-13638
Drawbacks of the Iran Deal
(National Interest) Shai Feldman and Ariel E. Levite - The Iran nuclear deal yielded neither a verifiable Iranian commitment to restrict its nuclear endeavors to the parameters of a peaceful energy program nor a mechanism that reliably prevents Iran from funneling the enormous unfrozen funds provided to it to all the wrong causes. Moreover, Iran has already begun to set limits on the access rights of the IAEA to its facilities and to violate with impunity the ban on arms transfers to and from Iran. And Iran's Supreme Leader continued his virulent attacks and relentless diatribes against the U.S. and Israel. Shai Feldman is director of Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. Ariel E. Levite, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007 and head of the Bureau of International Security and Arms Control in the Israel Ministry of Defense.