Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid met with US officials on Thursday and said if the Biden administration doesn’t “walk away” from the current Iran nuclear deal talks, it will show “weakness.”
“In the current situation, the time has come to walk away from the table. Anything else sends a message of weakness to Iran,” Lapid told US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), according to an Israeli official speaking to Axios.
The US is currently reviewing Iran’s response to an EU proposal to revive the deal, known as the JCPOA. Details of the proposal and Iran’s response aren’t clear, but Iran is reportedly seeking some guarantees if the US withdraws from the deal again, as it did in 2018.
The Israeli official told Axios that the EU proposal contains concessions to Iran, but the White House rejected that claim. White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said that the reports “that we have accepted or are considering new concessions to Iran as part of reentering the 2015 nuclear deal are categorically false.”
Lapid told the officials that “now is the time to sit and talk about what to do going forward in order to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” But if Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon were Israel’s real concern, they would favor a JCPOA revival since it puts strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program and makes it subject to the most stringent inspections in the world.
Other opponents of the JCPOA have stepped up their efforts to pressure the Biden administration not to rejoin the deal. A group of hawkish former US officials, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton, discussed military alternatives to the deal in Washington on Wednesday.
Bolton and the other former officials were joined by members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which is led by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a controversial group of exiled Iranians that are considered to be a cult.
There is no “But If”…! Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is NOT Israel’s real concern…! Iran becoming a super power militarily, scientifically and industriously in the Middle East is…!
Total BS. Israel had a very friendly relationship with the Iranians prior to the return of the Ayatollah. Both Iran and Israel can hold their own and would find an amicable relationship to be mutually beneficial.
Sure, when our installed puppet was in charge.
Israel does not have “amicable relationships” with anyone.
Hey Odele…still waiting for your hasbara on why ISRAHELL ADMITTED to killing those five Palestinian children at their grandfather’s gravesite.
Funny how you disappear when AW publishes such…
Only admitting so after the dust had settled and knowing the attention span here in America is around 15 minutes. All they will remember is Israel saying is was the 5 o’clock charlie missiles that went awry and killed their own..
You got it, Wars! Ain’t a-gonna see anything about it on the MSM for certain.
Only as long as the Iranians would do as told. Israel can’t be trusted, it is no better than the US. The continuing genocide of the Palestinian people and the propaganda justifying the crimes speaks for itself.
Doesn’t it figure that Israhell would be pals with the murderous Shah? 😄
Yes. Israel wants to be surrounded by failed states
Just how strong is the Israel lobby? We already fund pretty much everything in Israel, not just infinite weapons but also their welfare state and universal heathcare. Imagine if we spent that money here, on our own people. Nope, taxes for you, handouts for Israel.
Pal, what if every one of us refused to pay federal taxes until the guvvmint stops giving them to IsraHell? Sound like a plan?
Actually, being a slave to Israel shows weakness.
Israel is contrarian…
and Gaza is an open air concentration camp.
If only Joe’s balls weren’t bouncing off his knees, he’d remind that pissant who the fucking superpower is and that the apartheid practicing parasitic leach best not tell him what to do.
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Not walking away shows commitment.
As history shows great powers can get drawn into wars – even world wars – by junior partners or vassals, as is being shown by Israel’s ability to scupper the JCPOA.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
Nobody is really ‘drawn into’ a war unless the gov. really wants a war. And, Israel wants war with Iran, they just don’t want to do it themselves–they have Wash. willing to do their dirty work. And, remember the USS Liberty!
“Nobody is really ‘drawn into’ a war unless the gov. really wants a war.”
Interesting assertion.
Your other comments seem to imply there are exceptions if “the gov.” in question is headquartered in Moscow or Beijing.
I stand by that! Just remember Wash. is still going around the world provoking wars for the sake of MIC profits and other corps. who gain from endless wars. You know as well as I do re. both China and Russia are being provoked militarily and economically unless you don’t read the articles on antiwar.com, which makes me believe your military service in the US Marine Corp has brainwashed you into the ‘my country, right or wrong’ mentality. Military service begins with training using sadism, both mental and physical to destroy the recruits initiative as an individual and fit in with the hierarchy and ranks to obey without question orders given, right or wrong. The end result of this training is similar to the Stockholm syndrome where the victim sides with the sadistic perpetrators. Getting back to what you wrote and implied, yes, both Russia and China are states and are looking out for their interests, but the difference is defensive and not offensive. This time Wash. is the aggressor, logistics and distance proves Wash. is going around the world once again to start another war for the usual reasons, but this time it will face real resistance that won’t come from third rate forces or tribesmen on horseback. I advice and exhort every person in the military to examine their status quo and realize what they will be in for when it all comes down. Peace.
What makes you think I have any truck with “my country, right or wrong?”
I was against the US-sponsored coup in Ukraine.
I thought that the Ukrainian regime should have let the Donbas republics peacefully secede.
I’m opposed to any US aid or involvement in the war.
And I don’t pretend that Putin or Xi are any better than Biden or Zelensky. They’re all four sociopaths and thugs who are happy to murder “those other people” at the expense of “their own” people being similarly murdered — or, for that matter, to murder “their own” people themselves — if it serves their lusts for power.
And when they do that, they all spend half their time claiming to have been “provoked” and the other half hoping nobody notices that, if that was the case, that they must be idiots to have taken the bait.
Our alliance with Isreal is our weakness.
a.i.p.a.c. is the cancer in the U.S. government.
I would know, I hosted thier email.
Doesn’t Wash. know it’s obligated to obey Tel Aviv and do their dirty work? Insulting those paid off by AIPAC demands an apology for all the ‘weakness.’ What a gov. you have!
IsraHell’s got it ass-backwards. “Weakness” is when you bomb a captive population and allow your military and squatters to run rampant over an indigenous population.
Weakness is attempting to starve said population and deprive them of potable water and “mowing the lawn” every year or so.
Weakness is transferring your anger and insanity onto a population whose country you STOLE.
Weakness is bribing whores in Amerikkkan congress to do your bidding.
Weakness is doing your damndest to eliminate the natives of your quasi-nation because the world is turning against you and you know your days are numbered.
Weakness is threatening to resort to the “Sampson Option “.
That, my friends, is weakness.
LONG LIVE PERSIA
LONG LIVE PALESTINE
Except when Russia invades Ukraine.
Then none of your previous points apply.