Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Thursday that while he is not a fan of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, he does not see a better alternative.
“I am not a supporter of the deal. I think that the deal is not right. I’ve said it all along and I say it now, I just don’t see a Plan B,” Lapid said from Morrocco on Thursday, according to The Times of Israel.
Lapid blamed the failure to revive the deal before Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi came into office on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Raisi is viewed as a hardliner, a political faction inside Iran that US and Israeli aggression has emboldened. But Lapid seems happy that Raisi was elected.
He said Raisi “makes it easier for us to explain to the world what we are talking about … Here it is entirely clear that this is a terror state with a terror government, which deals with blood and death as a way of life.”
Raisi still favors a JCPOA revival and has signaled he is willing to pursue more indirect talks with the US, which have been on hold since June 20th. While Lapid blames Iran for the delay, President Biden is at fault for refusing to lift all Trump-era sanctions, forcing Tehran to negotiate. Now, the two sides are far apart on certain issues.
Khamenei has said that the US wants to add a sentence to the JCPOA that would require Tehran to enter more negotiations with the US over other issues, like its ballistic missile program. For their part, the Iranians want written guarantees that the US wouldn’t withdraw from the deal again and some sort of mechanism to confirm sanctions relief, which Washington is not willing to provide.
Meanwhile, the US and the Israelis are coordinating on Iran. CIA Director William Burns met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other officials in Israel on Wednesday to discuss Iran. According to a report from Axios, Bennett told Burns that the two countries should start working on a joint strategy for a scenario in which the JCPOA is not revived. The report said Burns said that he is skeptical that the deal can be salvaged.
Does the CIA take orders from Israel’s Prime Minister? See: “According to a report from Axios, Bennett told Burns that the two countries should start working on a joint strategy for a scenario in which the JCPOA is not revived. The report said Burns said that he is skeptical that the deal can be salvaged.”
Takes orders from, or agrees with completely? In another example, one doesn’t need to censor the press when the press is entirely willing to be complicit.
The reason for the Deal all along was that there was no better alternative, no Plan B available. Obama said that when he did it.
The fix for the problems was supposed to be follow on negotiations building on the progress and good faith of this Deal.
Trump wrecked that, completely.
Now Biden is clinging to what Trump did, not ending Trump’s extra sanctions, trying to get Iran to promise what Trump wanted.
We have not even tried to rebuild the progress and good faith achieved by Obama. Biden could have. A quick display of good faith might have gone far. He did the opposite, letting the crazy hawks run the show.
“Here it is entirely clear that this is a terror state with a terror
government, which deals with blood and death as a way of life.”
He must be talking about the US and Israel?
Projection is a core pathology of the Israeli and US governments.
And Iran apparently isn’t very good at it. They’re behind in the ship attacks, 12 to 1, they’re behind in killing nuclear scientist, 5 to 0, they’re behind in sabotaging each others nuclear programs 12 to 0 and they’re behind in nuke making 200 to 0. Not to mention they haven’t attacked another country, without being provoked, in over 200 years while Israel has done 1500 on Syria alone. Hate to be redundant and keep repeating these facts but someone has to since the bullsh*t exaggerations of Iran’s nefarious actions never end.
Apparently Iran is the Worlds largest sponsor of state terrorism.
How intelligent people can make that sort of ridiculous statement and be believed is beyond my understanding.
If you look what Iran has done to their own people, what do you think they do to other nations? Oh, and by the way,consider the attacks on a Jewish cultural center in Argentina. Or consider the murder of Iranian dissidents abroad.
The attack for which no suspects have been convicted, and which the Iranian regime condemned and denied any involvement in? That attack there?
The Mafia Don farmed out the work to the Argentine secret police. The Iranian rulers are shrewd and very patient.
Why not compare what Israel and Iran have done to each other over the last decade or two? What Iran does internally is irrelevant. And then using that as fact that proves Iran must doing something “to other nations” is just ridiculous. The real things Israel has done to Iran would be considered acts of terror if Iran had done the same to Israel. That was just proved evident when the US completely ignored Israel’s previous repeated attacks on Iranian tankers but called for international condemnation for Iran’s ALLEGED attack on an Israeli “linked” tanker. Any comparable assassinations Iran has carried out against Israeli scientists? Sabotages against their nuclear facilities? Instead, you say it’s what Iran must do since they treat their own people so poorly. That’s just nonsense.
Look at the warning, information, guidance we got from our press about the real situation in Afghanistan. After trillions, and twenty years, and so many dead, and so very many reporters, they told us NOTHING about reality.
Okay, so what do we expect from them about Iran? About the rest of this?
The same.
Don’t worry— Israel will be able to begrudgingly accept the deal provided it means more financial aid from USA
https://www.indianpunchline.com/russia-china-circle-the-wagons-iran-is-in-it/
Russia, China circle the wagons. Iran is in the SCO.
As its safe to assume Middle East doings are closely watched by Mossad, the cure for Middle East ills perpetrated by Israel will rely on sovereigns joining political and economic forces against Tel Aviv.
How intensely would they seek Middle East peace commensurate with a Palestinian state?
Iran helped block a Palestinian state-it stired the pot.
Yet the non-Jews in Gaza and the West Bank are terrorized by the people who call everyone else in the area, terrorists. Such a political term.