According to a report to Axios, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan floated the idea for an interim Iran nuclear deal to buy more time for negotiations in recent conversations with his Israeli counterpart, Eyal Hulata.
Sullivan said Iran could freeze certain nuclear activity, such as enriching some uranium at 60 percent, and in exchange, the US would release some Iranian funds or provide sanctions waivers for humanitarian goods. But the report stressed that Sullivan was just “brainstorming” and the idea was “only preliminary.”
The report said Hulata didn’t like Sullivan’s idea and stressed that Israel fears an interim deal could become permanent. It’s not clear how Iran would respond to the proposal, but with JCPOA negotiations resuming on November 29th, the US will have a chance to put it on the table.
In a call on Tuesday, Hulata said the US should get Western powers to censure Iran at the upcoming International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting. Israel is upset that Iran stopped complying with some aspects of the JCPOA. But since the US withdrew from the agreement in 2018, Iran is no longer bound by the deal.
While no longer bound by the JCPOA, Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and has pledged not to develop nuclear weapons. Israel, on the other hand, refuses to sign the NPT due to its secret nuclear weapons program and is the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East.
U S’s Jake Sullivian beseeching Israel’s Eyal Hulatato allow the USA to deal with Iran. Fake super power
Israel might agree faster if there were a stoppage of weapons shipments to them from American tax payers.
Why do you harp on to the impossible.Do you think your president,vice president, the entire congress, other establishments will let it happen. The will allow America itself go down the tube rather than annoying Israel their master
Pathetic.
Israel (in theory at least) has nothing to do with the Iran deal. And I can predict pretty well how Iran will react to this braindribble: angrily and with little interest in promises that the figurative beatings might moderate for awhile.
This begs the question of why does the United States have to get Israel’s blessing?
200+ nukes and no NPT. 0 nukes and signed NPT that morphed into NPT on steroids, the JCPOA. Now which country should be complaining to the IAEA?
Who is the superpower here?!!!!