Is Iran Ready for a Nuclear Deal? – Max J. Prowant

Iran went from being one of the most dominant players in the Middle East to one on its heels in the space of a single year .

Iran ’s Shia crescent has collapsed and major allies are either gone or crippled.

Iran is at its most vulnerable in decades , writes Peter Bergen .

There is a unique opportunity to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran that halts its progress toward nuclear armament.

Iran has been steadily increasing its stockpile of enriched uranium, keeping enrichment levels just shy of weapons grade.

Iran 's pronounced vulnerability is such that the nuclear option, whatever dangers it may invite, could be the only true defense left for the regime.

The Middle East is at the top of the world where we should hope to avoid seeing a nuclear arms race.

Instead of trying to blow up the Iranian nuclear program in perpetuity or quixotically pursue regime change, the Western world should try to engage Iran once more to arrive at a deal that limits and reduces the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium.

An attempt at regime change is more apt to produce civil war with no promise whatsoever of producing a peaceful, let alone democratic, victor.