Consequences of a freeze

Submitted by Sigmund Derman (United States), Nov 10, 2013 at 17:37

Though a freeze does not, in theory, make a later total denuclearization of Iran impossible, Iran has a history of buying time while doing what it wants anyway. Many sober thinkers, not just in Israel and the US, but also in Muslim countries like Saudia Arabia believe that this is just what Iran would do with such an agreement.

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