Israeli officials have told reporters that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is talking with his national security team on making plans for exactly what they’re going to demand President-elect Donald Trump do to Iran. Surprisingly, it’s not going to include killing the P5+1 nuclear deal.
After a solid year of railing against the P5+1 nuclear deal and pushing a Republican Congress to kill it over objections of President Obama, Netanyahu now seems finally to accept the idea that the US trying to unilaterally tear up a seven nation pact would neither kill the deal nor paint the US in a particularly favorable light.
Instead, he’s shooting for the US to shift their focus to imposing massive unilateral sanctions of Iran because of their conventional ballistic missile development, with officials saying Netanyahu wants to “stop Iran from becoming a superpower in the region.”
Israel’s push for sanctions on Iran is never meant to actually change Iranian policy, as they always oppose removing any sanctions irrespective of the reason. The false narrative of Iran’s “nuclear” program being a threat has simply shifted to missiles, and if missiles stops being a good enough excuse, they’ll come up with something else.
The way the deal dies is through Trump not raising a finger. He would have to actually veto the inevitable bills in Congress applying new sanctions on Iran for activities that Netanyahu wants them to stop- that happen to include some the US supports. Like fighting ISIS. Iran will be called on to cease “interfering” in Iraq -as well as, of course, destroying all its ballistic missiles, ending support for Assad, and ending all association with Hezbollah.
The bills will sail through Congress, and Trump will not veto them, as Obama has; and Iran won’t be able to buy any aircraft or work with any banks, blocking their trade again, so the deal will be as good as dead.
Iran but aircraft from Russia.
They don’t need to buy from the US.
So Iran says FU to the US and makes some sweet deals with Russia or China or India- any of them would love to have a market for their products, an independent oil source, and maybe some pieces of real estate to plant a forward base here and there? Instead of antagonizing Iran we should be courting them as an ally- to do anything else is going to to result in a long-term negative for us in the region.
“…result in a long-term negative…”
Ah, there’s the rub…short-term thinkers can’t/won’t grasp long-term results. They are more interested in immediate gratification. Besides, they won’t be around for the long-term negatives so screw it – let someone else, such as their children’s children deal with it.
The US KNEW what Iran was doing with its missile program, the Missiles do not breach the agreement! Just this week we saw the US Congress shoot itself in the foot by saying the Iranians couldn’t buy Boeing Aircraft of course then they said they couldn’t buy Airbus either, now there is a bit of a problem there because Airbus isnt a US Company it belongs to the EU!
Netanyahu is such a hypocrite. He wants to prevent Iran from becoming a “super power” when it’s Israel that’s the only country in the ME that has nukes plus the delivery systems to put them on target. Trump’s position on Iran is about the only thing so far that I disagree with. Iran is no threat to the US whereas Israel is a threat to all mankind. Doubt me? Google the “Sampson option” then.
“Hypocrite” is such an inadequate label for Netanyahu whom I just refer to as yaahoo.
Nutty-yahoo is more apt…
Iran could be worth much more to the US than is Israel. Making Iran a permanent enemy, using any excuse for pre-determined hostility, does not serve any US interest, and damages many.
Anything this asshole, Netanyahu has to say, should be completely disregarded. Agreeing with this psychopath, will just lead America into a deepening national debt and endless war. Israel is a liability for this country and the only ones who really support it are people who are trying to kill off humanity as a whole. Extinction of the human species is imminent, if Trump keeps taking Netanyahu’s advice.
My comment was in response to your comment to “Toss the Ziocon war mongers out.” which I believe is unlikely to happen. I’m well aware what the Yinon Plan entails. Sorry to disappoint.
“…imposing massive unilateral sanctions of Iran because of their conventional ballistic missile development…”
Maybe Iran would agree to stop making missiles capable of reaching Israel if the US would stop supplying Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states with weapons that threaten Iran.
How many times do I have to tell you that Justin doesn’t moderate comments? In fact, at least on the news side, he probably doesn’t even READ comments. I think he probably follows comments on his own columns, but he doesn’t moderate those, either.
Problem being Iran hasn’t broken any agreements on Missiles, this is simply another lie put out there by the Israel First folks.