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Washington Experts View Revival of Iran Nuclear Deal

(Jerusalem Post) Omri Nahmias - David Makovsky, director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former State Department official under President Obama, said, "The president-elect has said that he would like to renew the JCPOA, but only once Iran comes into compliance, and they have not been in compliance because they've been enriching at a much higher level. So that's going to take time." "Biden said, 'we've got to lengthen and strengthen.' That has been Israel's main critique - that the sunset provisions on restrictions on enrichment have been too short....People should not assume that whatever was done with JCPOA 1.0 was going to be repeated with 2.0." Dennis Ross, counselor at the Washington Institute and a former special assistant to President Obama, said, "It'll take time for [the Iranians] to come back into compliance. They have 10 times the amount of...low enriched uranium stockpile than they had when they implemented the JCPOA. They have to dilute that or ship it out of the country....Anyone who thinks there's going to be a kind of instant move to restore the JCPOA is ignoring that...we don't know exactly what they're prepared to do in terms of resuming diplomacy."
2020-11-12 00:00:00
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