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Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi made haste to present a firm opinion of U.S. President Joe Biden’s declared intention to return to the nuclear deal with Iran, which the United States withdrew from in 2018. “This is bad and wrong strategically and operatively,” Kochavi said at a lecture Tuesday at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. According to Kochavi, the agreement “will allow the enrichment of quantities [of uranium] and develop centrifuges to the point of hurtling toward a bomb. … It will apparently lead to regional nuclearization in the Mi