Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign and Security Affairs, told Newsmax that Tehran's nuclear negotiations with Washington are a strategy to weaken the US-Israel alliance. "The Iranian regime will never sign a surrender agreement with the United States," he said, warning against letting the talks create a rift between the allies.
As diplomatic contacts between Washington and Tehran advance, Israeli analysts are publicly voicing concerns that the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding serves Iranian strategic goals rather than ending the nuclear threat. Dr. Dan Diker, an expert at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign and Security Affairs, told the American network Newsmax that Tehran is using the talks to isolate Israel and strain the US-Israel relationship — a theme the analyst calls a central Iranian objective. Diker dismissed the notion that the Iranian regime has moderated its stance, citing a history of deception toward the international community. Separately, Shagiv Steinberg, CEO of the same center, warned in an Algemeiner op-ed that the emerging MOU grants Iran a strategic pause without requiring dismantlement of its nuclear program or missile project, or a halt to its support for regional proxies. Steinberg concludes that the conflict has been frozen, not resolved, and that Iran views ceasefires as opportunities to rearm for the next round. Both assessments echo criticism reportedly voiced within pro-Trump circles in Washington regarding the engagement with Tehran. As The Zioneer reported earlier today (SAME-THREAD context item, 07:27), analyst Yoni Ben-Menachem warned that Iran will try to deceive Trump in any nuclear deal.
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