(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Yair Lapid interviewed by Robert Satloff - Israel's new foreign minister, Yair Lapid, discussed Israel and the Iran deal with the Washington Institute on March 1, 2021. "We have three options....The best option is a good agreement. A good agreement means a lot of things that didn't happen or were not there in the original JCPOA. It means an agreement that includes the ballistic missile program, much better supervision, and a much better sunset clause. Of course, it should discuss the fact that the Iranians are the largest spreader of terror all around the Middle East." "The second best option...is a continuation of the sanctions, because the sanctions, when enforced the right way, have achieved most of what we needed. Let me remind you that the Iranians moved to the JCPOA only because the Obama administration tightened the sanctions like never before. So if you don't have the right agreement, you should go on with the sanctions until the Iranians choke." "The third, and worst, option...is the wrong agreement, the wrong JCPOA, which is just a tool for the Iranians to go on with their policy of 'let's let the Westerners hear what they want to hear while doing what we want to do.' This is just the wrong approach toward the idea of a nuclear Iran. A nuclear Iran is the end of the Middle East as we know it, for sure, but it's also a new threat to the entire globe."
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