Saturday: Iran said it now uses arrays of advanced centrifuges prohibited by its 2015 nuclear deal and can enrich uranium “much more beyond” current levels to weapons-grade material, taking a third step away from the accord while warning Europe has little time to offer it new terms.

While insisting Iran doesn’t seek a nuclear weapon, the comments by Behrouz Kamalvandi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran threatened pushing uranium enrichment far beyond levels ever reached in the country. Prior to the atomic deal, Iran only reached up to 20%, which itself still is only a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

The move threatened to push tensions between Iran and the U.S. even higher more than a year after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the nuclear deal and imposed sanctions now crushing Iran’s economy. Mysterious attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran shooting down a U.S. military surveillance drone and other incidents across the wider Middle East followed Trump’s decision....
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As of this writing, both President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have indicated a willingness to re-negotiate the Iranian nuclear deal. This is a result of the G7 talks in Biarritz, France, and some powerful diplomatic maneuvers on the part of President Emanuel Macron.

President Rouhani has said, “If I knew that going to a meeting and visiting a person would help my country’s development and resolve the problems of the people, I would not miss it.” He later added, “We have to negotiate, we have to find a solution, and we have to solve the problem.”

What problem is it exactly that Mr. Rouhani would like to solve? Is it that his country is going broke because of the sanctions, or is it a way to loosen any remaining restrictions on his country’s race toward a nuclear bomb?

What is bringing Rouhani to the table? Is he actually negotiating in earnest, or trying, once again, to use the negotiations as a smokescreen behind which his country can continue to enrich uranium, continue to produce missiles, continue to threaten shipping in the Straits of Hormuz, and continue to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism?

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Dr. Walid Phares is an engaging and highly sought after Middle East expert and pacesetter, often predicting trends and situations on the ground years before they occur. He is a Fox News Expert, advisor to the US Congress and the European Parliament and served as a senior advisor on national security foreign policy to presidential candidate Mitt Romney 2012. Dr. Phares is the only expert/author who predicted the Arab Spring a year before it occurred in his pacesetting book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Threshold, a division of Simon and Shuster 2010). Dr. Phares holds an extensive CV and noteworthy achievements in the fields of academia, government strategies, media and publishing critical advice on combatting terrorism and countering jihadi radicalization both stateside and abroad.

Dr. Phares holds a Ph.D in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami, and a Political Science Degree from St Joseph University and a Law degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut and a Master in International Law from Universite' Jean Moulin in Lyons, France.

Mike Pregent is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is a senior Middle East analyst, a former adjunct lecturer for the College of International Security Affairs, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University.

Pregent is a former intelligence officer with over 28 years experience working security, terrorism, counter-insurgency, and policy issues in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia. He is an expert in Middle East and North Africa political and security issues, counter-terrorism analysis, stakeholder communications, and strategic planning.

Pregent served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, served as a liaison officer in Egypt during the 2000 Intifada, as a counter-insurgency intelligence officer at CENTCOM in 2001, and as a company commander in Afghanistan in 2002.

He holds a Masters in Strategic Public Relations from The George Washington University and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Defense Language Institute in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Dialect. Mike is a free-lance writer for the The Wall Street Journal and a contributing writer to the Daily Beast.
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