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Iran's nuclear pact: Deal of the century?
Updated 1:13 PM ET, Tue July 14, 2015
(CNN)After 20 months of negotiations, a deal has been announced over Iran's nuclear program. But is it a good deal? And if so, for whom? CNN asked a range of contributors for their take on what it means, and what to expect next. The views expressed are the writers' own.
Aaron David Miller: The deal of the century -- for Iran
There's no question the Obama administration got what it wanted out of this deal: a slower, smaller Iranian nuclear program more easily monitored and constrained for at least a decade. No chance now of a pre-emptive Israeli strike, and no need for an American one. For now, a putative nuclear crisis has been defused and kicked down the road.
Aaron David Miller
But if the President got the deal he wanted, Iran got a better one. In exchange for a nuclear weapon it doesn't possess and a decision to weaponize it hasn't yet made,
Iran will get billions of dollars in sanctions relief, an open for business sign in Teheran that will bring it much more,the satisfaction of sticking it to Israel and Saudi Arabia, and the West's willingness to at least tolerate Iran's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Hezbollah and some nasty Iraqi Shiite militias.And to boot, Iran will be left with enough of a residual nuclear infrastructure -- as the President himself readily admitted -- that will give it the capacity to break out should it choose to do so.
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