The White House has called the first round of conversations between Iranian and Iranian officials in Oman “very positive and constructive.”
That is good news, yes, and only if, the objective of these discussions is to end, and not only postpone, the nuclear ambitions of Iran.
To be really constructive, negotiations must aim to prevent them from going back to war in the Middle East and export terror worldwide.
The goal must be to build on Israel’s military victory over Iran and forge a new regional era and long -term security for the United States.
The previous nuclear agreement, the Comprehensive Plan for the 2015 action, simply delayed the production of Iran of the highly enriched uranium necessary to produce atomic bombs.
He could not dismantle a single enrichment installation, contain the development of Iran of intercontinental ballistic missiles and address his undercover work in an atomic eye.
The fact that Iran has enriched enough uranium to make five nuclear weapons in a week demonstrates the total inefficiency of the JCPOA.
In addition to allowing them to remain a threshold nuclear energy, the JCPOA gave Iran many billions of dollars in relief of sanctions and commercial contracts.
Much of those defendants went to Hamas, Hezbollah and the hutis.
The devastating Warched for those proxies in October 2023 was largely part of the JCPOA.
Israel Neverberthth, however, prevailed in Iran, destroying its air defenses and neutralizing its regional allies.
Iranian power is today a shadow of what it was before October 2023.
Israel could put Iranian nuclear plants today with almost impunity.
It is not surprising, so Iran have received conversations with the special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, and will hardly be surprising when Tehran tries to extract the discussions enough to restore their Russian land batteries in the air.
The Mullahs could also try to stop negotiations until October, when the provision of JCPOA for Snapback UN sanctions against Iran expires.
Ultimately, he thought, what they will desperately needs is another nuclear agreement.
Such agreement, even if it is marginally more restrictive than JCPOA, would allow Iran to rebuild their defensive abilities and restore their representatives to their strengths prior to war, surrounding Israel once again with terrorist armies and tens of thousands of rockets.
No one should say that Israel feels passively and wait once again to be attacked.
While preparing the scenario for the next war, a renewed treaty of the JCPOA type would frustrate more efforts for peace.
Rather because of a weakening of Israel, Saudi Arabia would see stronger ties with a resurgistic tehran.
And instead of an American Pax revived in the Middle East, the region would fall to the clients of the superpower of Iran, Russia and China.
Eastern Europe and Taiwan could be the following.
So disastrous that a scenario could be avoided by military action: a single night of departures from the United States strategic bombers, each who dropped multiple useful bunker charges, would destroy all Iran’s nuclear facilities.
With its anti -aircraft batteries made in Russian in ruins and lacking modern combat planes, Iran would be helpless to respond.
Unlike warnings sometimes heard in Washington, Iran has zero capacity to make war in the United States.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to prevent Iran producing nuclear weapons, if necessary by military means.
He has transferred two transport groups of US aircraft transporters and strategic assets squads to the Arabic sea, which indicates to the Iranians in non -uncertain terms that the United States means businesses.
However, Trump, who is proud to end conflicts, wants to exhaust all diplomatic options.
From an American perspective, its position makes a lot of sense: to give the Iranians a serious opportunity to negotiate in good faith.
But to succeed, the objectives of these conversations must be clear.
The enrichment facilities of Iran and its ICBMS arsenal must be dismantled verifiably. The role of Iran as the main source of the bloodshed of the Middle East and as the state sponsor of terrorism of the world must end.
Through the time, strict time limits in the conversations must be placed; Iranians cannot be allowed to be dragged.
A credible, American and Israeli military option must always remain on the table.
Iran can “flourish”, as Trump imagines, and become “a wonderful, big and happy country, but no longer threatens its neighbors.
Iran can prosper, but not at the expense of American and global security.
Michael Oen, previously Israel ambassador to the United States, is the founder of the Israel Defense Group and author of Clarity Sustack.