IDF Radio military correspondent Doron Kadosh assessed that if a CNN report is correct, Tehran has a 'win-win' scenario on enriched uranium: a deal would let it stall and deceive over extraction, while no deal would make any US military operation to remove the material far harder than weeks ago, according to the analyst.
Doron Kadosh, the military correspondent for IDF Radio (Galei Tzahal), offered a strategic assessment of Iran's position regarding the removal of enriched uranium from its territory — a key reported term of the emerging US-Iran nuclear deal. Citing a CNN report as his premise, Kadosh argued the arrangement benefits Tehran either way.
If a deal is signed requiring Iran to hand over enriched material, it gains a ready-made pretext to delay, deceive, and claim inability to extract the uranium. If no deal materializes and the US attempts a military operation to remove or destroy the material, such an operation would now be far more difficult and complex than it would have been weeks ago, according to Kadosh's analysis.
The assessment adds an Israeli military-intelligence lens to the unfolding diplomatic drama, which The Zioneer has tracked in depth — from the White House's 85% probability estimate for a deal to the detailed five-point framework described by a senior US official to Israel Hayom. Kadosh's remarks do not cite specific intelligence, and the CNN report he references has not been independently confirmed.
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