Israel: Iran’s latest demands prove nuke deal unworkable

The demand by Iran’s leaders for the immediate lifting of all sanctions on the day a deal on its nuclear program takes effect represents proof that the US-led powers are adopting an unworkable approach to thwarting Iran’s push to the bomb, Israeli sources said Friday.

A day after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ail Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani insisted that there would be no deal unless sanctions were lifted on the day it went into effect — contradicting what the US says were understandings reached in a framework agreement last week in Lausanne — Channel 2 News said Israel regards the Iranian leaders’ declarations “as proof of its central argument” against the emerging accord: “You can’t make a deal based on trust with a regime that can’t be trusted.”

Despite its relentless objections to the deal, which is supposed to be finalized by June 30, Israel actually believes that Iran will take it, the Channel 2 report said, because the deal as it stands is good for Iran and will pave its path to bomb. Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told the TV station that Israel would spend the coming weeks “trying to get some of the loopholes” in the agreement closed. Steinitz complained that the deal, which he called “a big mistake,” neither full freezes nor fully inspects the Iranian program.

The unnamed Israeli sources Friday also highlighted other remarks made by Khamenei Thursday, in what were his first comments on the Lausanne framework, in which he said nothing was finalized so far in the talks and referred to the US as “a stubborn, cheating, bad-dealing party who is used to stabbing from behind.”

It was simply not possible, Israel argues, to talk credibly about having reached “understandings” with a regime that immediately levels accusations of cheating, Channel 2 reported.

All Iran’s government had to do was sit still and say nothing for three months, and it would have had everything it wanted—just like the Palestinians during Ehud Barak’s tenure. When it comes to Israel, it seems that Satan can’t help overreaching.

2 posted on 04/10/2015 1:09:38 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)

It was the plan all along. For six years they played our current administration for suckers to buy more time.
They will kill the plan as planned.

3 posted on 04/10/2015 1:51:04 PM PDT by Tac Double Tap (I'd rather die standing than on my knees begging.)

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As does the clear ineptitude of the Kerry negotiating team. Unless I'm to believe Obama and Kerry are capable of lying to the American people, they simply don't know what they agreed to.

4 posted on 04/10/2015 3:21:23 PM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes)

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