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The U.S. Shouldn't Return to the Iran Deal
(National Review) Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz - Tehran has increased the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium and started to deploy advanced centrifuges faster than allowed. The regime is also preventing the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency from accessing Iran's nuclear facilities, in violation of the NPT. And for the fourth time under the Biden administration, an Iran-guided Shiite militia has rocketed an American base in Iraq. Since 2012, we have seen the Islamic Republic's official emissaries take the lead in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Sunni Syrians; undertake an assassination campaign against expatriate dissidents; try to bomb an opposition conference outside Paris which many Americans attended; and savagely crush ordinary Iranians protesting. Iran's supreme leader certainly isn't going to accept more restrictions on his industrial-size atomic aspirations after the U.S. lifts sanctions. Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where Mark Dubowitz, sanctioned by Iran in 2019, is the CEO.