Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office expressed pleasure at the latest moves on the Vienna talks on the Iran nuclear deal, something which is virtually unheard of for the dour Israeli government, which tends to oppose anything that involves diplomacy and Iran.
They’re happy because after several days of back and forth, it looks like the US is refusing a proposal to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) from the terror blacklist.
Sometimes presented as a side deal and sometimes as a “red line” demand, the move seems like it won’t happen, and Israeli officials are hoping this will damage the ongoing talks, and maybe collapse them outright.
That’s not entirely likely, and even Israeli officials conceded that they understand this may not prevent a deal, and complained that it was possible Iran might still benefit if a deal did happen.
This comes as Israeli officials play up the number of attacks they carried out on Iranian targets in recent months, claiming over 400 such strikes. Iranian targets is often misleading, especially as spun by the Israeli press, as it tends to cover not just actual Iranian things, but also anything even tangentially associated with Shi’ite Islam.
Israel wants war between the US and Iran.
I doubt that this is real. The only realistic objective of such a war is an Israel-friendly regime change and that regime will need US occupation of Iran for a long time. In other words: Iraq II.
And Israel will then have to find another danger to keep the dollars coming. Syria? Who will believe that? Saudi Arabia? But they are now Israel’s friends.
No way. The current situation is a great milk-cow for US dollars. Do not slaughter it.
As if removing the IRGC was a ‘side deal’. Lifting sanctions and allowing global trade is the normal thing countries do. The presence of the IRGC is used as an excuse to block virtually all maritime traffic.
IsraHell, IsraHell, IsraHell. For once I’d like to see no bylines about what Israhell demands.
IsraHell, you’re a shitty little quasi-nation that wouldn’t exist without my taxpayer dollars and your APARTHEID regime.
Go suck collective prick, IsraHell.
With the west on the ropes due to their sanctions on Russia, Iran may not be in such a rush any more. They are right to demand the US Congress approve of any new JCPOA. They should even demand a super majority approval.
The US may on the surface be refusing to remove the IRGC from its terrorist black list but in reality the fight is over in which currency Iran’s oil exports will be denominated. All the other oil producing countries the US has invaded since the year 2000 had denominated their oil exports in any currencies other than the US $ before invasion or were in the case of Iran starting their own oil bourse AND not using the US $ which is really the reasons for sanctions. Iraq, post invasion, had its oil exports denominations changed back to US $ from Euros or other currencies. Libya is deliberately on the behalf of the US now a failed state. The US is illegally occupying the oil producing part of Syria so it is not hard to figure out which currency the US is using as it steals Syrias oil and sells it.