Itongadol.- The agreement reached in Geneva over Iran\’s nuclear program is only an initial deal, which will allow the US and the international community to test Iran over the next six months, former Military Intelligence chief and the head of the Institute for National Security Studies, Amos Yadlin, said Sunday.
Speaking to journalists through a conference call, Yadlin urged Israelis not to be taken in by a sense of gloom over the agreement, saying, "If this was a final agreement, it would indeed be a very bad deal, but this is not the case."
"The world powers wanted to reach an agreement. I hope that the prime minister is now formulating a strategy to see what happens in the next six months. That, and not what happened last night, is what is important," Yadlin said.
Although not a "dream agreement," when compared to the proposed deal floated in Geneva earlier this month, Sunday\’s agreement is an improvement, Yadlin argued.
He credited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with improvements that appeared in the second draft agreement. Unlike the first draft, the current arrangement freezes nearly all Iranian activities at the Arak heavy water reactor (a suspected plutonium path for the nuclear program), and forces the Iranians to neutralize their stockpile of 20% uranium.
The new deal also gained an Iranian commitment not to build additional uranium enrichment centrifuges.
Collectively, these measures only slightly roll back Iran\’s program, Yadlin stressed.