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[email protected] ) | Founding editor: Sheldon J. Berman Z”L Issue 8 7 1 Volume 2 2 , Number 0 5 Parshias Beshalach J anuary 30 , 20 2 1 The Case against Returning to the Iran Dea l By Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi theatlantic.com January 21, 2021 In return for merely postponing its nuclear program, agreement did not shut down a single nuclear facility or the agreement rewarded Iran extravagantly. destroy a single centrifuge. The ease and spe ed with which Proponents of the Iran nuclear agreem ent are Iran has resumed producing large amounts of more highly sounding the alarm. In 2018, the United States withdrew enriched uranium — doing so at a time of its own from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and since choosing — illustrates the danger of leaving the regime with then, Iran has increased the quality and quantity of its these capabilities. In fact, the JCPOA blocks nothing. uranium enrichment well beyond what the deal allows. If the restrictions on Ir an’s nuclear enrichment were Recently, it has even begun enriching uranium to 20 inadequate, they were also designed to be short - lived, percent, a short distance away from weapons - grade. Iran, some sunsetting as early as 2024. Meanwhile, the deal JCPOA advocates say, is closer today to producing a bomb allowed the regime to develop advanced centrifuges than it was in 2015, when the deal was concluded. Only capable of spinning out more highly enriched uranium in the deal’s renewal, they insist, can prevent the nightmare of far less ti me.