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Robert Joseph: “I believe it will represent perhaps the single greatest strategic mistake in the national security area in the past…”

On the recordJune 9, 2015
I believe it will represent perhaps the single greatest strategic mistake in the national security area in the past 35-plus years of my career.
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Robert Joseph

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Robert Joseph criticizes the potential nuclear agreement with Iran as a major strategic error.

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Jun 9, 2015

I think there are a number of fatal flaws in our position and in fact in what has already been agreed.

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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.

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It is certainly better that Iran, at declared facilities, is spinning fewer centrifuges rather than more centrifuges.

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I would suggest that instead of relieving sanctions we impose even more sanctions. It was sanctions that brought the Iranians to the table.

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