Webinar – Bad Deal Rising
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Washington and Tehran are reportedly on the precipice of reaching an interim deal to end hostilities. President Donald Trump announced on May 23 that “an Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization.”
The draft under discussion is reportedly a memorandum of understanding lacking concrete next steps, aside from further negotiations. However, it reportedly involves Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz, the United States ending its blockade, and both sides agreeing to a 60-day timeline for further negotiations, while also obliging Israel to end its conflict against Hezbollah.
Yet many details are unclear, particularly regarding the scope and timing of both Iranian concessions on its nuclear program and U.S. sanctions relief. And while President Trump is pledging that any agreement will be “the exact opposite” of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the United States appears to be giving away a great deal of leverage accumulated over 38 days of war and seven weeks of blockade while Iran appears to be keeping at least some of its nuclear program and giving away nothing on its ballistic missiles or proxies.
To discuss a potential deal and its impact on regional and global security, JINSA hosted a webinar featuring JINSA Distinguished Fellow IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel, and JINSA Senior Advisor Stephen Rademaker, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security & Nonproliferation.
The discussion was moderated by JINSA Vice President for Policy Blaise Misztal.
IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror is a Distinguished Fellow at JINSA. Prior to joining JINSA, MG Amidror was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel, as well as the head of Israel’s National Security Council. MG (ret.) Amidror also has served as Director of Israel’s Intelligence Analysis Division. |
Stephen Rademaker Stephen Rademaker is a Senior Advisor at JINSA. Rademaker is the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. He has also previously served as Deputy Staff Director of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council. |
Blaise Misztal Blaise Misztal is the Vice President for Policy at JINSA. Misztal previously was a Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and has held roles as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States and Director of the National Security Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center. |