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Gemunder Center Iran Task Force in the Washington Post

Ex-Obama adviser: Interim deal is a sham
By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
January 27, 2014

Former Obama adviser Dennis Ross wrote a curiously incomplete and unsatisfying piece for Politico, expressing concern that the Iranians won’t do what we want them to — dismantle their nuclear weapons program to such a degree that the country ceases to be a “threshold” nuclear power. Hmm. How did things go wrong? What happened here?


Ex-Obama adviser: Interim deal is a sham
By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
January 27, 2014

Former Obama adviser Dennis Ross wrote a curiously incomplete and unsatisfying piece for Politico, expressing concern that the Iranians won’t do what we want them to — dismantle their nuclear weapons program to such a degree that the country ceases to be a “threshold” nuclear power. Hmm. How did things go wrong? What happened here?

Then I received in my inbox a report excoriating the interim deal. The report came from a task force put together by JINSA, an international pro-Israel organization, and was co-authored by respected conservative foreign policy guru Eric Edelman and, yup, Dennis Ross. How curious that Ross wouldn’t share the full extent of his concerns with Politico readers nor give them an appreciation for how we got to this point and how entirely misguided is the administration’s current approach.

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