The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Israel is warning the US not to strike a “partial” nuclear deal with Iran. Israeli officials said they feared the US was setting up for a “less-for-less” agreement that would require Iran to reverse some of its nuclear activity in exchange for some sanctions relief.
Last week, reports said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan floated the idea of an interim Iran nuclear deal in conversations with his Israeli counterpart, Eyal Hulata. US officials told the journal that the idea of a “less-for-less” deal was just “brainstorming” ahead of the new round of JCPOA talks that are set to start on November 29th.
There is a precedent for such a deal with Iran. In 2013, Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium at 20 percent in exchange for limited sanctions relief while the JCPOA was being negotiated. Earlier this year, in response to an Israeli covert attack, Iran began enriching some uranium at 60 percent, which is still lower than the 90 percent needed for weapons-grade. The JCPOA limited Iran’s enrichment to 3.67.
Israeli officials claim if the US strikes any sort of interim agreement, it would embolden Iran’s hardliners. But such a deal might be the only way forward since the Biden administration and the government of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appear to be far apart on what they want. Iran wants the US to lift all sanctions that have been imposed since the US withdrew from the deal in 2018, but Biden officials have been clear they do not want to lift all Trump-era sanctions.
On Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said he hoped the US would negotiate a stronger deal than the JCPOA. “A good agreement is one that will plug the holes in the previous agreement in the fields of nuclear development, missile launching systems, breakout time, and what Iran is doing in the region,” he said.
But Gantz’s demands are unrealistic since Iran has no reason to negotiate a stricter agreement after the US failed to stay in the JCPOA. Both Israel and the US have stepped up their threats against Iran ahead of the new round of talks. On Wednesday, Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), said his forces are “prepared” for potential military action against Iran if the negotiations fail.
The rot in any new agreement is that Iran cannot trust us to remain in it. You do what Trump did once and you will never again be trusted.
Here is an interesting analysis showing the timeframe for Iran’s nuclear weapons breakout:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/11/irans-nuclear-weapon-breakout-timeline.html
How long it will be before both the United States and Israel take military action to destroy Iran’s ability to further enrich its stockpile of uranium, dragging the world into yet another endless and costly war?
Iran has an incentive to increase production. A General murdered. Facilities attacked by Israel. Constantly. Crippling sanctions. Piracy by the U.S. (hijacking a Iranian tanker, then selling the oil). U.S. and Israel “making preparations to attack Iran”. WTF!!!
under the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty NNPT of the IAEA international atomic energy assoc, which the US and Iran are both signatories while Israel is not, the US is required to assist Iran in safely building a nuclear power plant in Iran. that is the real “nuclear deal” right there.
Bingo! Iran signed in 1968, ratified in 1970.
A good agreement would therefore also plug the holes in Israel’s nuclear development, missile launching systems (including subs with nuclear cruise missiles), and what it is doing in the region to include attacks on Iran, and in Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and Gaza.
But what Israel wants is the freedom to do all those things without worrying that anybody could stop them.
Will stop one day, and with catastrophic consequences, Every time a major power starts losing its economic pull, problems start. Lesser powers start looking for partnerships, or competing against other lesser powers with or without waning power help.
Worth remembering three periods of waning powers causing destruction of all dependent economies. It is a domino effect. Breakdown of Egyptian dynastic economy by the 1200’s BC, caused the shrinking economic pie, fight among sea faring powers for trade colonies, then a collapse of all heavy dependencies, from Ugarit, and Hittite, Mycenae, Knossos and even Cyprus. They all in turn fought to take chunk of Egyptian delta trading, romantically called “people of the seas”.
No need to say what happened to Roman empire and the tumult that accompanied its downward spiral.
While we do not think about it in the same way, indeed even British Empire weakness, economic snd financial tumult brought about WWI, disintegration of Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Prussian-led Germany. It brought to the fore new Atlantic power, US — taking the mantle of industrial revolution away from England. It was unhappy ending for UK, and one more war was needed to bring the Empire to demise.
Same is happening to US, so dependencies beware,
Why, it’s almost as if Israel thinks that it has a de facto veto over US foreign policy!
Thinks?
US is a sad country. It can be dictated to. Talk down to. Pushed around. Hard to believe.
Why does this useless little pip-squeak country occupying a spec of desert think it can boss around the United States?
Why doesn’t anyone ever ask that question?
Marxists Won,
Good question – but it will never be answered, because that little pip-squeak country owns the Eastern seaboard Democrats and all of the Republicans in Congress – we are going to attack Iran – accept that.
Attacking Iran would create civil war in US…!
No, grasshopper, it would not. Just like 9/11, many will rally around the flag, cheer the pictures of F-18 launching off of aircraft carriers in the dead of night. Wolf Blitzer would have a special hour dedicated to the mission. Biden will appear before a teleprompter to deliver the good news, the Tehran is a ruined city, the places where the evil ones were prepping their nukes to wreak havoc over the world has been destroyed. It would be glorious!
However, it would be up to brave journalists in Iran to record the carnage, the horror. The truth.
Who against who?
Nothing of that sort will happen.Civil war or riots or unrest will take place only when Zionist interests are not at stake. Just as it happened during Vietnam war.You know very well that Iraq war was Zionist instigated. Was there any protest. Occupy Wall Street: what happened? Attacking Iran will be for Zionist interests. Any protests will be muscled. People won’t even know about it because the Zionist controlled media will black out the protests.Don’t have any false hopes.Palestinians suffer from occupation physically mentally and in every way.Reality is that America is also under Israeli occupation.Palestinians know they are under occupation. Americans are not aware of it. that is the differance
Clinton did. And then he kissed their ass some more.
They all have.
No. They all haven’t ask the question Marxist won was wondering about. They all have kissed ass. Some more than others. Clinton did at one time ask, “Who is the Fu*king superpower here?”.
Marxism is a curse.
FUCK Israhell and their dictates. My hope is that Iran DOES develop a nuclear weapon to make the murderous Zionazis shake in their jack-boots.
Iran should demand replacing America with Israel in talks however unpalatable it is.There is no point in talking to surrogate or subaltern. Talk to the master
https://journal-neo.org/2021/11/26/washington-unleashes-biological-warfare-in-syria/
The US’ biological warfare against Syria and Russia via fertilizers.