Iran’s official news agency has reported that a deal may be in the works for Iran to agree to an additional protocol of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which would allow UN inspectors to make immediate, impromptu visits to Iran’s nuclear sites.
The official quoted, Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Reza Sajjadi, also said a deal might include Iran halting expansion of its nuclear program if the West halts further sanctions.
If true, these sound like deals few observers expected would materialize before the talks began. Iran was fully within its rights even as it caught harsh U.S. and Israeli criticism and even threats of war. Now, they seem to be yielding to the pressure even more.
The good news coming out of the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 didn’t stop Israeli officials from disparaging the diplomacy. At Israel’s annual Independence Day ceremony on Thursday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that because Iran probably won’t “heed international demands” regarding its nuclear program, “[n]ow is the moment for the entire international community to gear up to put a swift and decisive end to Iran’s nuclear program.”
Indeed, despite the predictable derogatory comments about the talks and threats of war from Barak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, there is a considerable amount of optimism coming out of the negotiations that a settlement is in the works.
Barak’s comments seem even more absurd just days after Israel’s top military chief joined with the overwhelming consensus of the world and said publicly that Iran’s leaders are rational actors and are not seeking nuclear weapons.
now if we could just get israel, pakistan and india to even sign the damn thing
Iran is being setup for a Iraq/Syria job. The US (sorry independent IAEA inspectors totally lacking CIA agents) will go to site X, stating we have secret evidence that the Iranians have nuke weapon facilities at site X. The US expect and plan to find nothing. They will then state that Iran has hidden the evidence (where? same place as Hussein's supposed nukes). Iran will then be deemed to have acted in bad faith, total end of so-called diplomacy, bombs away. The whole nukes business is a pretext, same as with Iraq, something 'Everyone Can Agree On' (TM).
ISrael will never Sign it as long as the neighbours do not have A-Bombs. Give them the Bomb and Israel will sign immidiately
The "international community" should demand that Israel sign the NPT and get rid of their nuclear weapons.
Israel has been downgraded to BB status. That is, Barak and Bibi are driving the international drama as to why Iran should never have the right to enjoy the benefits of nuclear physics for energy or for medicine. As a molecular biophysicist, I can assure you that as lethal and targeted damage to an ethnic people can be derived from modern recombinant DNA techniques. Does this mean that all the molecular biology labs in Iran should also be shut down? And tell me how Israelis are using modern science to make the world a better place?
This may be a victory for Iran by coming out clean ..
the Zionist are gonna be caught with no pretext for War , no threat
to israel is Not Good for the Zionist !!!
The USA is not gonna fund Israel because of a Peace Pretext !!!
Having no pretext for war has never stopped them. And when they find themselves without one, they fabricate it.
It's good to hear that the Iranians agree to halt the nuclear program they don't have. Sounds like they're learning to play the evil white man's game of speaking with forked tongue.
I wonder just how many foreign "agents" will be flushed out by this exercise. Yes, it's a crafty move that serves both to muzzle, if only for a little while, the rabid Israelis, and ferret out potential traitors at the same time. Bravo! Well done indeed.
It's getting to easy to predict the ChristoZionists moves. If you look in the corporate media today, there's a self-serving piece of propaganda touting a "former Israeli spy" (anonymous and all, of course) saying that war with Iran is come and it will be "messianic" – LOL!
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-ex-spy-warns-against…
As I said before the real issue is not nuclear weapons. Iran is becoming a formidable military opponent of Israel. Israel really doesn't want the sanctions lifted, because Iran's economy will explode.They will have one of best economies and one of the greatest military powers in the ME. This is a no no for Israel. Just think how well Iran has done all these years dispite the scantions.