Iran¡¯s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is signaling a willingness to make a new nuclear deal with the West, but on terms that would allow the Islamic Republic to maintain its nuclear threat. The U.S. shouldn¡¯t fall for the trap.
Rather, U.S. President Joe Biden¡¯s administration should step up implementation of existing economic sanctions and rally European allies to impose even tighter restraints on the regime in Tehran.
Iran¡¯s state media recently reported Khamenei as saying, ¡°There is nothing wrong with the agreement (with the West), but the infrastructure of our nuclear industry should not be touched.¡± The implication is that Iran should be given relief from economic sanctions but allowed to keep the equipment it has developed in racing toward the enrichment of weapons-grade uranium over the past two years.
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