Some Iran deal supporters now see it as a flawed agreement

Eli Lake:
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The State Department's former special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, Bob Einhorn, invited these nonproliferation experts to "one or more workshops to address the nuclear deal's 'sunset' problem," which he said was the risk that, "when key nuclear restrictions of the JCPOA expire, Iran will be free to build up its nuclear capabilities, especially its enrichment capacity, and drastically reduce the time it would need to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon."

This was a key objection voiced by Israel in 2015 when it publicly opposed Obama's deal with Iran. Between 2025 and 2030, the agreement to limit Iran's stocks of low-enriched uranium and the number of centrifuge cascades it can operate will expire, allowing Iran to erect an industrial-scale nuclear program if it chooses.

At the time, Israel's objections were dismissed and derided by the White House. Obama called the deal's critics warmongers.

Today, former Obama officials are singing a different song. Einhorn, who served from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama administration, told me: "Everyone recognizes that the deal is not ideal. I think President Obama would say the deal is not ideal." He added: "There have been all kinds of ideas for how it can be strengthened. Strong supporters of the deal would acknowledge that. Let's think of a strategy for how some of its shortcomings can be remedied."
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... But Iran negotiated the current nuclear deal only after the U.S. imposed and enforced sanctions that cut its banking system off from the international economy and cut off its ability to export oil. Those so-called secondary sanctions crippled Iran's economy, because they applied not only to Iran but also to any foreign entities that did business with it.
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I don't get how those who supported this bad deal think they can get Iran to extend it since there will not be any more goodies for doing so.  I have also not seen any of the supporters of the deal say how it could protect us from Iran buying a nuclear bomb from North Korea with the money Obama gave them.  Both Iran and North Korea would see that as a win-win deal for them.

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