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Like it or not the Rohani government has alot of supporters inside Iran, especially among those pro US crowds. As long someone like Rouhani is in the office those crowds and their ideas will be fed and kept alive and will in general tie the hands of the supreme leader and the estabilishment from advancing the nuclear program.
Khamenei is a leader that frequently asks his advisors to visit people and measure their opinion and he considers the opposing party worthy of having discussions. If someone like Ahmadinejad is going to take office this will greatly influence the mind of the supreme leader that the nation is with him and united (e.g. the 80's wartime situation with Iraq).
In other words : Reformists try to appease the west and Khamenei reluctantly agrees with them everytime.
In my opinion, Khamenei is extremely experienced and he alone can pull it off and place Iran in a very good position. I just hope he chooses this path before he goes.
The point here is that the reformist administration of Rouhani tried to make a deal and it failed so far. They are not given infinite chances at this. This is why I said if this deal falls parts, Khamenei will not approve of another set of negotiation, not anytime soon anyway. As for this notion of advancing the nuclear program, Iran's overt nuclear program was used a bargaining chip to try and lift the sanctions. If Iran was interested in an actual nuclear weapon, this would be done covertly and there is nothing a government, like Rouhani's could do to stop it. That's why I said Iran's open nuclear program is grown at a calculated rate and used as a negotiation tool. This was a clever tactic, the only issue here is, the deal signed was flawed.
Don't think that Biden will be any different from Trump. Trump is an honest man, exposing his ideas and his intentions in a foolish way. The Democrats are also committed to the security of Israel, which means that any deal with them will have the same fate. As a matter of fact, the Obama administration violated the deal just like the Trump administration. We got lucky that Trump pulled out of it.
The deal signed was flawed. The focused mostly only on certain sanctions and did not others. A democratic president will try to "save" the JCPOA, but obviously if they try (good chance they will) to continue to play games, then the deal is gone. I think they needed someone like Jalili to negotiate.