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Mark Dubowitz, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has conferred with the Obama administration and testified before Congress on Iran sanctions, says Rouhani appears to reflect an Iranian regime "brimming with confidence" that it can cut a favorable deal.
Dubowitz said Iran has succeeded in obtaining billions of dollars in relief from sanctions under a temporary agreement, and has won U.S. concessions in the talks on a permanent nuclear agreement: letting Iran keep enriching nuclear fuel; agreeing that the final agreement under discussion will someday end; allowing Iran's long-range missile development to be excluded from the talks; and proposing that rather than dismantling its equipment for producing nuclear fuel, Iran need only disconnect pipes connecting the machines.
"They've seen the USA try to bend over backwards to offer concessions to get a deal," Dubowitz said.
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