(BBC) Dore Gold - Responding to the U.S. withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, Amb. Dore Gold told BBC on Tuesday: "It's no big deal to have verification in declared sites. The Iranians say, 'Here, you can look at these sites, but you have no access to undeclared sites, military sites.' So it's clear that the Iranians are going to put all their illicit weapons development in the undeclared sites. By the way, that's what they did in the past." "Historically in arms control, you can take a bad agreement and turn it into a good agreement. There was the SALT 2 treaty under President Carter. It was such a failure that they didn't even give it to the U.S. Senate for ratification because they knew it wouldn't pass the Senate. So what happened instead? Instead, a new set of treaties called START were negotiated by President Reagan that created stability between the superpowers and brought about a real detente. That's what you have to do now." "Right now, they can build all the missiles they want and at the end of the agreement, when the sunset clause kicks in, they can start enriching uranium in massive quantities. You will be facing a new Soviet Union, like you had in the Cold War, but it'll be a Shiite fundamentalist state. That's dangerous, not just for Israel, but for the world." The speaker, former director general of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israeli ambassador to the UN, is president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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