Iran’s Islamic regime is facing a “big dilemma” over whether to return to negotiating over its nuclear program, including the potential that its population could stage an uprising while the leaders have been weakened, foreign policy analyst Walid Phares said on Newsmax, Sunday. 

“On the one hand, Israel is scoring big victories against precisely the nuclear military program,” Phares told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “It is depleting leaders, commanders, scientists.”

The regime, he added, refused to come to the table with “real concessions” to speak with the Trump administration. “The Israelis are shrinking that regime, the power of that regime,” said Phares.

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