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Pompeo: Nuclear Deal Didn't Really Restrict Iran's Capabilities
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Former U.S. secretary of state and CIA director Mike Pompeo told the Jerusalem Post that the fact that Iran was quickly able to jump to 60% uranium enrichment "doesn't prove the decision to withdraw from the JCPOA [the Iran deal] was a mistake. A commitment not to enrich when you have the capacity to do research on advanced, more capable centrifuges is folly. If I have the capacity to do centrifuges, I can turn up the pressure. You can enrich anytime you choose." "It is foolish to think that for anything which you can do in a matter of months, you should sacrifice: 1) billions of dollars, 2) allow assassinations throughout Europe, 3) allow the missile program to develop and 4) allow terror in the Middle East." "The entire basis of the deal was fundamentally flawed....The Iranians have no intention of ceasing to seek a nuclear weapon....There is no reason to give billions of dollars to fortify those programs."