Tamir Hayman’s comments, which broke with the Israeli government’s opposition to the agreement, came as reports indicated that the US and Iran were moving closer to restoring the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Heyman tweeted Friday that the current proposal for a return to the nuclear deal was a “bad agreement,” but was crucial to “withdraw Iran from the situation in which it is at (almost a [nuclear] threshold state).”
“The signing of an agreement will definitely ensure that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon at least until 2030, and also after that forbid it from developing military nuclear capabilities,” said Heyman, who is now managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies think tank in Tel Aviv. “All of this is subject to international supervision, and under the wary eyes of Israeli intelligence.”
He indicated that Israel needed “to buy time” until it had the capacity for a strike on Iran significant enough to make an impact but precise enough to keep an all-out regional conflict from breaking out. READ MORE
