(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - The moderate Sunni Arab states see the emerging nuclear deal as the U.S. bowing to Iran, former Israeli national security council head Meir Ben Shabbat told the Jerusalem Post. "It is only when the Ayatollah regime is faced with a choice - to lose power or renounce their nuclear plans - will it give up its nuclear program. There is no precedent for a country renouncing its nuclear program freely and without pressure....Sanctions against Iran could have achieved this goal if they had continued to operate with greater intensity, together with a credible military threat." "The Trump administration left the Biden administration with important leverage to exert pressure on Iran. They should have continued to use it. That would have broken the spirit and the hope of the Iranians, who had expected that the change of administration in the U.S. would bring some relief for them." U.S. allies "see the agreement with Iran as bowing to the Iranians and allowing them to grow stronger in a way that also threatens them....The emerging agreement has no levers to force Iran to engage in discussions on a 'longer and stronger' agreement....The Iranian regime will increase its efforts to achieve nuclear weapons, also as a lesson learned from the war in Ukraine. It will see nuclear weapons as an essential guarantee to secure its survival, and will do everything in its power to achieve them quickly."
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