Senior Israeli official tells @Reuters: "1 of the problems w/ the [JCPOA] is that it left Iran w/ a nuclear infrastructure in place which allows it - at a point of its choosing - to move ahead relatively rapidly... JCPOA puts infrastructure in the freezer or in mothballs".
2| Here's the thing: at no recent point has total denial of infrastructure been serious possibility, neither thru negotiations nor sabotage. JCPOA worked - and senior Israeli mil/intel officials noted this - bc mothballs, freezers are solid non-proliferation gains, undone now.
3| Don't take my word for it. Here's the recently-retired head of Mossad just last month [via @TimesofIsrael] 
4| Or the Deputy IDF chief of staff at time of JCPOA, writing in the @WashingtonPost a few week ago:
5|5 For those who keep saying 2021 isn't 2015, yes - what were abstract but reasonable criticisms at the time are hollow now that the clear, demonstrable result of complaining about freezers has been taking those very infrastructures out of top shelf, and into the microwave.
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