“Whatever deal we do with Joe Biden, the next president could come and undo it, so how do we make it stick?” Amir Handjani, fellow at the Quincy Institute, told CNBC, describing Tehran’s thinking. “That’s going to be the real test for any deal. But any Iranian negotiator, who we do not envy, will have to go back to Iran and sell that to the supreme leader, to the Revolutionary Guards — very tricky to do.”
Andrew J. Bacevich, the president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, sees ending the global war on terror — and replacing the military counterterrorism rubric with a law enforcement model — as part of an ambitious three-pronged plan to fundamentally remake a national security policy.
