U.S. Foreign Policy
“The Iranian program has grown, become more sophisticated, so the linear return to 2015 is no longer possible,” says International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi.
“Rejoining the JCPOA in 2021 is more reckless than when the U.S. agreed to it in 2015,” said JINSA CEO and president Michael Makovsky.
During their joint press conference in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had discussed the Iranian threat with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and expressed hope that the United States “will not go back to the old JCPOA.”
Richard Goldberg, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says it “makes no sense from a U.S. negotiation posture. We’re giving up historic leverage in exchange for compliance with an already flawed deal that is already expiring.”
While America and Israel had reached an agreement in 2005 to prevent the Jewish state from exporting defense systems to China, trade in other economic sectors has expanded, with China now Israel’s second-largest trading partner.
Craig Heimbichner said his writings about conspiracy theories were written from “a scholarly standpoint.”
The letter comes as a result of the Biden administration restarting aid to the Palestinians of $235 million—$150 million that goes to UNRWA.
“The administration will be questioned or criticized by some Democrats on the Hill, but it will move forward just as in 2015, without regard to their worries,” said Elliott Abrams, former U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela and Iran in the Trump administration
The Maximum Pressure Act would require Senate approval for any new deal between the United States and Iran.
A treaty is different in that it requires congressional approval under Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon spoke at the annual symposium of the Ruderman Family Foundation’s Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa.
“Our neighborhood is, unfortunately, becoming more unstable,” says Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
