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Iran Wants to Make a Deal the U.S. Must Refuse
(Bloomberg-Washington Post) Bobby Ghosh - Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is signaling a willingness to make a new nuclear deal with the West, but on terms that would allow the Islamic Republic to maintain its nuclear threat. The U.S. shouldn't fall for the trap. Rather, President Biden's administration should step up implementation of existing economic sanctions, and rally European allies to impose even tighter restraints on the regime in Tehran. Since Biden's election, the Iranians have accelerated their enrichment activity as well as the development of missiles and military drones, the better to threaten their neighbors and menace international shipping in the Persian Gulf. They also increased funding and training for a network of proxy militias and terrorist groups across the Middle East. These programs were aided by the administration's lax implementation of existing sanctions, which allowed the regime to export record quantities of oil.