According to a report from Axios, on Tuesday, US and Israeli officials will convene the second meeting of a strategic group to coordinate on Iran. The talks are headed by each country’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan for the US side, and Meir Ben Shabbat for the Israelis.
The first meeting of the strategic group took place in early March. The second comes as the US and Iran are engaged in indirect talks to revive the nuclear deal, something Israel is strongly opposed to and is taking covert action to sabotage the effort.
An attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility over the weekend was attributed to Israel’s Mossad spy agency by Israeli media, and Iran blamed the Israelis on Monday. Last week, an Iranian ship was targeted with an explosive in the Red Sea.
The idea of the strategic group is for Israel to convey its objections to the US rejoining the JCPOA at the advisor level, so ties between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are not strained. But Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials continue to make their opposition to a revival of the JCPOA clear despite the strategic group.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday. On Monday, Gantz said he told Austin that any future nuclear agreements with Iran must be “more robust” and have no “expiration dates.”
“We believe the old agreement was not a good enough agreement, that there needs to be more pressure on Iran and to reach an agreement without expiration dates and with wider and unrestricted oversight abilities,” Gantz said.
The Israelis claim that because the JCPOA has an expiration date, it is a path to a nuclear-armed Iran. But that ignores the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which it would still be bound by after the JCPOA. Israel, on the other hand, refuses to sign the NPT since it has a secret nuclear weapons program.
translation- isn’treal wants usa to fight war they start with iran.
“something Israel is strongly opposed to and is taking covert action to sabotage the effort.”
Sure, lets call it “covert”.
Iran has to provide a pro-JCPOA face but it fully realizes that this forfeiture of sovereignty was a mistake, one that Ayatollah Khamenei wasn’t really fully in favor of back when Obama decided that he needed a “plus” in his otherwise sordid presidential foreign policy record, and Israel’s opposition didn’t matter.
All of these nonsense Israeli demands and its compliance by the slave US will encourage Iran even more to deviate from fatwa and build the a-bombs for deterrence reasons…!
Iran will never build A-bombs. They do not need to.
Israel can be obliterated by ordinary ordnance, a few 100,000 of them.
There is no question that Iran can confront Israel with conventional weapons. However the main purpose of a-bombs is to deter and specially deterrence from Israel or US to strike Iran with nukes…!
This is why they are currently wearing down their enemies in Syria
The U.S. should let Israel write the terms of the new JCPOA and then insist that Israel must abide by the same terms.
Or else what…?! Sanction Israel to the teeth…?! They won’t do that…!
“Or else what?’ Then no JCPOA and Iran can do whatever it thinks is in it best interests for a defense plan, and the USA keeps its nose out of it.
That is a fantastic idea. Pity it wont be taken up
the US really needs to stop pandering to israel and drop the little weirdos. who gives a f%$k what their opinion is
At some point Israel is going to have to be stopped.
It is committing acts of war daily and because it has the US behind it, a response to their murders and assassinations is blocked.
US, instead of condemning Israeli actions is copying them.
When the response comes there will be no holding back and apart from the US media everyone else on this planet will applaud.
It may well be the end of Israel and of Zionism, and every jewish person wherever they are should be fearful that they do not get caught up in the revenge that will be sought by those who have been wronged. (About 30 million Palestinians and their descendants for a start.)
A good nuclear first strike will send your little hitlers back into the trilobite era
You are obviously ignorant of nuclear capabilities and what effect they wold have on a country the size of Iran.
You are obviously ignorant about Hitler.
You are equally ignorant about the motivations and capabilities of both Arabs and Pashtun.
You could not even beat Assad and you are thinking of warring with Iran?
Don’t be fooled by the actions of the kings and presidents, the people will happily wipe the Zionist regime from the memories of man.
Cobalt warheads will calm Iran down ,I have never been at war with Assad-what are you tallking about? Iran is only minimally Pashtun, it is Persian, and I am quite familiar with people of your ilk.
Maybe so. But any government that launches a first strike is almost certain to very quickly learn that it’s sitting on top of the second strike’s bullseye.
I would be surprised if two things are not true.
The first thing would be if the US regime has not advised the Israeli regime that it will NOT have their back if they launch a nuclear first strike.
The second thing would be if the Russian regime has not advised the Israeli regime that any Israeli first strike will quickly be followed by the nuclear destruction of (at least) Tel Aviv.
Actually,Putin is relatively friendly towards Israel.Jericho IRBMs can easily reach Russian cities. Israel cannot afford to absorb a first strike-hence the Sampson option or a first strike. When someone threatens genocide, it is necessary to put them in their place.
And when someone repeats exaggerated bullshit they should also be put in their place. Iran is no threat to commit genocide on anyone and to keep repeating it won’t make it true. Iran is totally containable and even the parasite sucking shithole knows it.
HA!
The only %$#*& hole is in your head. Author on this page gleefully dreams of genocide, and you are silent-what a hypocritical phony you are-and you wonder why Zionism exists and is good.
He said if Israel doesn’t stop with their assassinations, murders and their daily acts of war then that well may be the end of Israel and Zionism. Saying the world will applaud the demise of this murderous regime is just a fact, not glee.
Where do you presume to speak for “the world”?
Just assumed the world would applaud getting rid of murderous regimes. A fair assumption. But if you’d like I will say it is only my opinion that they will applaud. Feel better?
Fact in your twisted worldview-sane people understand that life is complicated-I for one will not hide my head and tremble when your sort of person goes by. While peacefully standing in the street, two people asked if I was Jewish and then approached me with no good intentions.The sight of a small pit bull rapidly dissuaded them.
I didn’t say that Putin isn’t “relatively friendly towards Israel.”
I said I’d be surprised if he hadn’t put the supreme kibosh on any Israeli first use of nuclear weapons.
It was supposed to be a first step. It gave a ten year window in which to reach further agreements without having Iran go nuclear in the meantime.
The Israeli/ US stance is not about seeking peace. It is to enforce subjugation of other countries.