(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton and former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers both told an Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) virtual conference on Monday that if any major comprehensive deal with Iran could be struck, it would take more than a year to do so. Bolton added that if the main dynamic leading into the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was U.S.-EU cooperation, today Israeli cooperation with moderate Sunni countries had upended all expectations and past trends. Likewise, former top CIA official Norman Roule implied that the negotiating positions of the incoming Biden administration and the Islamic Republic were far apart. Former IDF intelligence chief and INSS executive director Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin said that giving up leverage created by the U.S. maximum pressure sanctions campaign without getting new Iranian concessions on ballistic missiles and Tehran's destabilizing of the region "would be a big mistake."
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