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Sajjad Safaei is a postdoctoral fellow at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He holds a PhD from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. His writings on U.S. foreign policy, Middle Eastern affairs, and non-proliferation have appeared in outlets such as Foreign Policy, Responsible Statecraft, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, and The National Interest.
The renewal of the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program does not undermine Israeli national security per se but rather a longstanding tenet of Israel’s strategic thinking: that it must be able to fully eradicate any challenge to its military superiority deep inside enemy territory.
