“Power is not the answer to all problems. But neither is restraint. If you have the power to prevent the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism from developing nuclear immunity yet fail to use it, then disarm, embrace pacifism, and prepare to suffer the consequences.

To those who blame President Trump for abandoning the JCPOA, Barack Obama’s deal with Iran, consider this: Had the JCPOA still been in effect, its “sunset clause,” allowing Iran to produce advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade level in a matter of weeks, would be coming into effect around now. At the same time, the JCPOA would have permitted Iran to continue developing nuclear warheads and delivery systems.

And had the economic sanctions ended, Iran would have benefited from a massive infusion of funds, immensely strengthening the regime and its terror proxies. Iran would have become the regional power in the Arab world; a nuclear Iran would have been virtually unstoppable.”

Read the complete op-ed by Yossi Klein Halevi on Times of Israel.