(Newsweek) Daniel Schwammenthal - In an interview with the New York Times' Thomas Friedman, President-elect Joe Biden suggested to first re-enter the Iran nuclear deal and only then negotiate new restrictions. Past experience suggests that this approach is unlikely to succeed. Tehran will gladly pocket the lifting of sanctions and then refuse to negotiate - or agree to talks in order to drag them out indefinitely. Let's remember that only after the U.S. and the EU imposed unprecedented sanctions did the Islamic Republic agree to the JCPOA. The incoming administration should recalibrate the sequencing - first using the leverage built up by the current sanctions to renegotiate before lifting sanctions. The writer is the director of the American Jewish Committee's Transatlantic Institute in Brussels.
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