When U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley testified last week in a Senate committee on the Biden Administration’s policy, he expressed a rather pessimistic view of the prospects for reinvigorating the 2015 Nuclear agreement.
Such a deal, he said, was better than the present situation, because without it “Iran advanced its program by accumulating sufficient quantities of enriched uranium and making technological gains that have left the breakout time as short as roughly a few weeks, limiting our window to warn of and react.” The problem is exacerbated, said Malley, “by international inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency having less information and access to detect and deter Iranian attempt to pursue covert activities.”
Is that really the case, and if so, what are the implications? To deliberate this matter, we are joined from New York city by Dr. Olli Heinonen Former Deputy Director General IAEA and a Distinguished fellow, Stimson center, Washington DC. Also joining us here in the studio is Col. (Ret.) Dr. Eran Lerman, Co-host TV7 Middle East Review, Powers-in-Play Panelist, JISS VP and Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, and Amir Oren, TV7 Editor at Large, Host of TV7 Watchmen Talk & Powers in Play.
