Once you allow Iran to maintain and in fact under this agreement expand a large-scale infrastructure for enrichment, the agreement in and of itself explicitly recognizes at that point Iran as a nuclear weapons threshold state.
Joseph warns that allowing Iran to enrich uranium legitimizes its nuclear ambitions.
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It is certainly better that Iran, at declared facilities, is spinning fewer centrifuges rather than more centrifuges.
The Russians have no interest, and they have said so explicitly, no interest in arms control, whether it is for offensive, strategic forces, or for their theater forces.
My skepticism is that we continue to apply cold-war approaches in our relationship with Russia.