According to a report from The Times of Israel, Israeli officials recognize that the Biden administration is intent on returning to the Iran nuclear deal and are now focusing their efforts on pushing President Biden to keep Trump-era Iran sanctions in place.
The strategy doesn’t make much sense considering the US withdrew from the JCPOA by reimposing sanctions on Iran. It’s possible that the Israelis want Iran’s civilian nuclear program to be under the strict limits of the JCPOA while the Islamic Republic is still under crippling sanctions. But Tehran would never agree to reduce its nuclear activity without significant sanctions relief.
So far, despite entering indirect talks with Iran, the Biden administration has refused to lift all Trump era sanctions, so the two sides have been negotiating what measures the US will lift. An unnamed Israeli official who spoke to the Times gave credit to the Biden administration for refusing to lift sanctions up to this point.
The official said Israel had expressed its position on sanctions to the Biden administration during recent high-level Israeli visits to Washington. Recent delegations included Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, President Reuven Rivlin, and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi.
The official also said that Israeli officials have made clear to the Biden administration that Israel has the “right to act against Iran’s nuclear ambitions,” likely a reference to covert attacks against Iran’s nuclear program. “The US seems to accept this,” the official said.
On Tuesday, Iran blamed Israel for a June attack on a building owned by Iran’s nuclear authority outside of Tehran. In April, Israel carried out a covert attack against Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, which coincided with the start of negotiations to revive the JCPOA. Despite the clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the talks, the US has not condemned Israel’s action.
With all the law suits against Iran, there is nothing left in the Iranian accounts. So the lawyers who successfully plundered the Iran booty and now asking Biden to prevent the discovery of the empty accounts.
That would keep any accounts from being used in the future if sanctions “were lifted,” so that Iran could not be paid.
And they were actually serious? They take our wanting everything up front before we give anything in negotiations to a new level. Just eliminate the part of giving anything. And I thought our arrogance knew no bounds.
Right, its’s classic gangster diplomacy, the new international rules of order. And Iran has to keep up the charade, or lose their international platform and be cast as devious terrorist plotters, and be set up for regime change.
preposterous…!
Israel wants to ensure that it is the only country in the region with nukes (that none of the other nations want-they want a nuclear fee zone). Of course the USA supports Israel, the Iranians are not believed when they deny even wanting nukes, and an important agreement to keep peace in the region was tossed aside by Trump. The “Democratic Party” of Joe Biden makes the situation even worse than Trump did.
They “stop opposing it” and instead just make it impossible.
They try to impose absurd and impossible conditions, because they are absurd and impossible. If they could think of anything more absurd or impossible, they’d demand that too.
Why not eat your cake and have it too or so the Zionists hope…. Oh wait, they want U.S. to make the arrangements. And in addition to give them the billions of $$$s that is extorted from American workers by our corrupted leaders who send them your money and they return the favor by contributing “campaign contrabutions” AKA kickbacks to the pols who ripped us off for them. Everybody but us taxpsyers gets their graft:We pay it