Berman argues that proxies/militias must be addressed first in considering re-joining the JCPOA.  (Others say release the hostages).  See “The Iran nuclear deal needs to be fixed and rewritten, not just revived,” Russell Berman, op-ed, The Hill, March 3, 2021.

If true, the large oil spill “trail” against Israel will go up to the highest levels of the IRI.  We will have to see.  “… following a two-week investigation, the Environmental Protection Ministry found that the ship that leaked the crude oil, called the Emerald, was owned by a Libyan company and sailed from Iran to Syria. It departed Iran, turning off its automatic identification system (AIS) – which transmits its location to other ships in the area. It turned the AIS on as it went through the Suez Canal, and then off again as it approached Israel’s shores. The ship remained within tens of kilometers of Israel’s shores, within Israel’s economic waters, for nearly a full day, spilling large amounts of oil on February 1-2, with its AIS off. Then it continued on to Syria, where it turned on its transmitter, and it returned to Iran, turning off its AIS as it passed Israel. It is currently in Iran. The tar reached Israeli shores on February 17.”  See “Mediterranean oil spill is ‘eco-terrorism’ by Iran, Israel says,” Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2021.

But see the following article—it is not the consensus of the Israel intelligence community (yet) that Iran ordered this environmental act.  For example, it may have been an accident.  But, we would all acknowledge that if that much oil was spilled as the ship traveled north, and was only spilled along Israel’s coast and not from a leak while passing through the Canal, any claim of accident seems dubious.  See “Blaming Iran, environment minister calls oil spill ‘environmental terrorism’,” Times of Israel, March 3, 2021.

“Kimia Alizadeh, Iran’s only female Olympic medalist, hopes to compete as refugee in Tokyo,” Japan Times, March 3, 2021.