There aren’t many issues that have Israel and major Sunni Arab states on the same side of the argument, but this is one. For those of us in Israel who have had to take cover from incoming rockets supplied and paid for by Iran, the prospect of the Ayatollah’s receiving a $150bn windfall as sanctions are lifted also leaves us cold.

It won’t just be the well-groomed Iranian foreign minister Dr. Zarif with a big smile on his face, it will be the regime leaders back in Tehran, and all their pals in the region. The Supreme Leader will be getting congratulatory text messages from all his friends: President Assad in Syria, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, and the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders who store Iranian-supplied missiles in Gazan schools and hospitals.

If the upside of easing sanctions on Iran was a diplomatic solution that permanently kept Iran out of reach of nuclear weapons, this might be justifiable. But instead we are looking at a ten to fifteen year gamble, and the odds are not tempting.

Read the article in full at The Independent.