(Forward) Emily B. Landau - The Iranian archives that Netanyahu recently presented to the world are very important. These are Iranian documents which lay out their nuclear plans and activities. There's no room for any doubt that Iran was working on a military nuclear program. This is in contrast to the IAEA reports on Iran since 2011 which were couched in uncertainty. For years, Iran has been holding on to a narrative of innocence, according to which it never worked on a military nuclear program, and has reaped important benefits. By insisting on its narrative of "nuclear innocence," Iran was successful in getting the P5+1 negotiators to acquiesce to its demand to leave past questions outside the frame of the talks. The only problem with what Netanyahu revealed is that it wasn't revealed 10 years ago. That could have made a real difference for any negotiation with Iran. Clearly any justification for an unconditional sunset of the JCPOA provisions has been seriously undermined. The writer heads the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
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