If one was tasked with coining a catchphrase to sum up Iran’s current nuclear policy, it may well be “stall and install”. The new government in Tehran, under President Ibrahim Raisi, is taking its sweet time in negotiating over prospects of negotiations - trying to squeeze American concessions as the price for drafting a renewed edition of the 2015 deal. While the world waits, the centrifuges keep rolling, racing toward enough fissile material for a single Atomic bomb. At the same time, there is an apparent trend in the region to acknowledge the reality of American military withdrawal, with a Saudi-Iranian dialogue conducted in a semi-secret channel. What does it all add up to?
To analyze this topic we are joined from central Israel by Col. (Res.) Reuven Ben-Shalom, Cross-Cultural Strategist and Associate at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Herzliya, Mr. Meir Javedanfar, Iran lecturer, IDC Herzliya, and Amir Oren TV7 analyst and host of Watchmen Talk. Host Jonathan Hessen.
