© Reuters. Iran is on the brink of the required amount of uranium; AMAN’s recommendation – a nuclear agreement initiated by Israel
| Yoav Limor, Israel Hayom |
The Intelligence Division of the IDF believes that Israel should promote a new nuclear deal with Iran, which will replace the previous deal that collapsed. In recent months, Israel has been following with increasing concern the progress in Iran’s nuclear program. Uranium at a military level of 90%, and reach within a few weeks a sufficient amount of enriched uranium to make a bomb.
Admittedly, other processes related to the production of the bomb and its completion will take another two years, but Iran can establish itself now – if it decides to do so – as a threshold country that possesses the ability and knowledge that cannot be denied.
The fear of the rate of accumulation of highly enriched uranium, and the amount accumulated, was at the basis of the Biden administration’s desire to return to the original nuclear deal, the one that the Trump administration withdrew from in 2018. The Americans first pledged that the renewed agreement they would achieve would be longer and stronger, but later retracted this demand and agreed to return to the previous agreement.
The one who piled up difficulties, and in fact torpedoed the return to the agreement, was precisely Iran, who insisted on not cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s demand to respond on the issue of the “open files”, which deal with nuclear activity that took place at three facilities in the Tehran area, for which no explanation was given.
Professionals in Israel were divided in their opinion regarding the return to the original agreement. The Mossad, which is responsible for the Iranian file, strongly opposed this, and claimed that an agreement would only be possible to the extent that it would indeed keep Iran away from nuclear weapons for an extended period, and would include other elements such as the prevention of escalation and the cessation of terrorist activity. On the other hand, the AMN believed that the previous agreement was considered to be the least of the evils, and the possibility of monitoring Iran without an agreement is very limited, and in fact it is free to go nuclear whenever it decides.
The political echelon, first led by Naftali Bennett and later led by Yair Lapid, sided with the Mossad’s position, but this internal Israeli debate was largely fruitless: the United States and Iran did not reach an agreement, and last week a recording of President Biden was even revealed in which he says that the agreement is dead. This is despite the fact that its other partners – China, Russia, Great Britain, France as well as Germany – did not withdraw from the agreement, and without their withdrawal it still formally exists.
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