Milan, 30 May (LaPresse) – If Trump accepts the deal, it will be so weak that “within a few years we could find ourselves at war with an Iran strengthened by its actions”. If he does not sign it and resumes bombing, “we run the risk of becoming trapped in a new, permanent conflict in the Middle East”. This is what former CIA Director Leon Panetta says in an interview with La Repubblica. The deal under discussion “looks like an agreement to extend the ceasefire, gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz and take 60 days to negotiate very complex issues such as the nuclear programme. It is an agreement to negotiate, rather than to end the war”. “One of the most serious problems is that the president will find it very difficult to trust this regime. Iran has shown it can control the Strait of Hormuz; in some way it will continue to do so, and this will give it an advantage that is unacceptable to the US,” he adds.