Posted on 11/29/2013 2:31:34 PM PST by Dave346
Entire sanctions regime ‘will collapse within months,’ unnamed sources tell Israeli TV; US has shown it has ‘no red lines’ on Tehran
Unnamed Israeli officials denounced US President Barack Obama on Friday night for presiding over failed negotiations with Iran under which they said the sanctions pressure on Tehran is collapsing and the Islamic Republic has been granted the right to enrich uranium. The entire wall of sanctions, painstakingly constructed over years, is already crumbling and “will collapse within months,” the officials were quoted as saying.
In comments reported by Israel’s Channel 2 news and attributed to unnamed senior Israeli officials and official sources in Jerusalem, Obama was castigated for ostensibly showing he “will do anything to avoid a situation in which he will have to resort to force” against Iran.
Under Obama’s supervision, the unnamed officials said, the Geneva talks had produced a failed interim deal under which Iran has been granted the right to enrich uranium, and years of international sanctions pressure on Iran is now melting away.
Publicly, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the Geneva deal as a “historic mistake,” said Israel is not bound by it, and vowed to thwart Iran alone if necessary. In a phone conversation with Obama on Sunday, Netanyahu agreed to send a team led by his national security adviser to Washington to try to impact world powers’ upcoming efforts to reach a permanent accord to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons drive.
Privately, the unnamed officials were quoted as indicating Friday, Jerusalem is feeling a bitter, dismayed and helpless sense of “We told you so.” Noting that officials and businessmen from around the world — notably including China, Turkey, France, Russia and India — are already converging on Iran, ready to resume large-scale oil, banking and all manner of other business dealings as sanctions are eased in the wake of Sunday’s Geneva deal, the officials were quoted saying that Israel knew the sanctions pressure would collapse, “but even we didn’t imagine it would happen this fast.”
The Channel 2 report quoted one official saying that the US was “not leading but is being led” by Iran, and that the Obama administration has indicated that it has “no red lines” in its dealings with the Iranians.
Melding the Hanukkah holiday and foreign affairs, Netanyahu on Thursday night vowed to serve as a “light unto the nations” and act against Iran’s nuclear program should diplomacy fail. Speaking at the Western Wall for a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony, Netanyahu compared Iran’s nuclear program to a darkness that would be forced out by Israel, referencing a popular children’s song for the holiday.
“We came to drive out the darkness, and the largest darkness that threatens the world today is a nuclear Iran,” he said. “We are bound to do all we can to prevent this darkness. If possible we will do this diplomatically, if not we will act as ‘a light unto the nations’.”
Earlier Thursday, Yaakov Amidror, the former head of the Israeli National Security Council took to the pages of The New York Times to rail against the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, calling the accord a diplomatic failure that missed the mark in diverting Tehran’s nuclear weapons program. “The agreement represents a failure, not a triumph, of diplomacy,” Amidror wrote.
Israel is going to strike...and soon.
It won’t be long before Israel with assistance of the Saudis will attack Iran and bury anything having to do with a nuclear bomb.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
“It won’t be long before Israel with assistance of the Saudis will attack Iran and bury anything having to do with a nuclear bomb.”
Disagree vehemently. THE SAUDIS will only stand behind the backstop, and jeer the Iranians, and cheer the Israeli’s until the Israeli’s mission is accomplished, and then they will stand inside the backstop screaming, and yelling at the dirty Joos.
The point being the Saudi’s are only for the Saud’s, and never ever trust the b-stards for anything otherwise.
You are not up to date. The Saudis and Israel have put together an alliance so the Saudis approved Israel using their air space and their air field if they need to land in the process of attacking Iran or getting back home. The Saudis definitely do not want a nuclear Iran, they are not friends.
I am very up to date on that Marcella. I don’t believe it for a minute. The Israeli’s need all the help they can get, and are using the users (Saud’s) right back only as a name on the list if you will.
The Saud’s are for the Saud’s, and will screw over everyone, and everything to get what they want. The Israeli’s can only take them at their word.
I will be vindicated in my belief only when the SHTF.
Allrighty, believe what you want.
Well Gosh! Thank you.
It’s the same as always. Openly, everyone hates Israel but behind the scenes they do what they can to ensure Israel gets the resources it needs to take care of business.
Obama is trying to throw a monkey wrench into the works.
Obama/Jerry/Jarrett gave them no choice. Even though striking will now bring almost total world condemnation, we have put them in a corner with no graceful means of escape, just as Sun Tzu admonished against.
Thanks Dave346.
Thanks Dave346.
Here is the actual agreement:
http://eeas.europa.eu/statements/docs/2013/131124_03_en.pdf
We all need to educate ourselves and stop listening to loose talk. Think for yourselves everyone.
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