Posted on 02/24/2015 10:02:21 AM PST by Dave346
US Secretary of State John Kerry defended the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran on Tuesday in comments that appeared to be directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As Netanyahu accused the P5+1 group of world powers of giving Iran a green light to maintain the ability to make nuclear weapons, Kerry said that those bad-mouthing the deal are doing so prematurely, before the contours of the deal have been determined.
During a tour of the IDF's Southern Command, Netanyahu said that "the information I have received in recent days reinforces our fears in regard to the emerging deal between world powers and Iran."
The deal would "allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state. That is to say, with the agreement of the world powers, Iran will be given license to develop the ability to make a bomb," Netanyahu charged.
The prime minister again defended his decision to address the US Congress next week, saying that Congress "may be the final chance to block a deal between the world powers and Iran."
Speaking at a congressional hearing on the US State Department budget Tuesday, Kerry said in apparent answer to Netanyahu's recent warnings about the emerging deal, "I can't state this more firmly, the policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. Anyone running around right now, jumping to say we don't like the deal, or this or that, doesn't know what the deal is. There is no deal yet."
Talks between Iran and world powers were set to resume next Monday, it was decided after Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks in Geneva on Sunday and Monday. The sides are hoping to reach an agreement by March 31 that would answer concerns over military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief for Tehran.
"I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce. Since 2013 we have been testing whether or not we can achieve that goal diplomatically. I don't know yet. But it's the most effective way to solve the problem and we will prove that over the course of these next weeks and months," Kerry said Tuesday.
"The P5+1 talks have made inroads since the Joint Plan of Action. We've halted the progress of Tehran's nuclear program. We've gain unprecedented insight into it and we expect to know soon whether or not Iran is willing to put together an acceptable and verifiable plan," he added.
Senator Mark Kirk grills Kerry in this clip, saying the sanctions relief is the “heart and soul” of the negotiations and is 5 times what Iran pays to keep Hezbollah running.
Kerry gets defensive and actually falsely claims Netanyahu wants to see the interim deal extended!
I’m srue it was, and I’m sure the Israeli’s know everything being said in the WH and closed meetings with the staff.
Bibi is on a mission here, and nothing is detracting him from it, therefore this is going to be a blockbuster speech, kinda like McNamera during the Cuban Missile crisis.
I look for Bibi to show satellite images of the construction of silos, and rockets etc.
Senator Kirk also had a large poster behind him, with the title “Iran Appeasement Schedule”!
If you haven’t seen this, you’ll enjoy it more. The link is in the article.
Bibi the Bibi Sitter.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190733
If you haven’t seen this, you’ll enjoy it more. The link is in the article.
Bibi the Bibi Sitter.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190733
If you haven’t seen this, you’ll enjoy it more. The link is in the article.
Bibi the Bibi Sitter.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190733
Thanks, nikos1121.
You don’t need a translation to see that Bibi is a natural at acting.
America is in desperate need of a reality check from Obama’s fantasies and propaganda, and I hope Bibbi gives us one.
Shalom!
Wasn’t that great?
It sure was. I had heard about the commercial but had not seen it, so I appreciate the link.
Yeah....kinda like obamacare?
We gotta agree to it to see what’s in it?
No thanks.
Congress “may be the final chance to block a deal between the world powers and Iran.”
Obviously Bibi doesn’t know anything about this congress.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Does he think we won't find out. If it's a lousy deal, everyone will know. Presuming the President doesn't plan on making it a double secret non treaty treaty.
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I wouldn’t take the word of someone who, by his own words as its commander in Vietnam, took his swift boat out of action and went AWOL in Saigon because he felt he and his crew were overly stressed out.
I wouldn’t take it for anything.
Here’s to you John Kerry. Ptuh!
Premature? OK. Wait until it’s a done deal, with the contours already fully known, and THEN bad-mouth it, when nothing more can be done about it, other than in a war. That’s some great option./s
Kerry is trying to get on Valarie’s (J.) good side.
I wish Terayza would put ground glass in his oatmeal.
Yep
The Israelis are good. Lurch should know that the Jews were probably sitting around a 128” plasma TV and listening to the entire negotiation in Dolby Surround Sound.
They know what he’s going to have for breakfast next Tuesday. Whether Israel will continue to exist or not rests on these negotiations.
They are getting the intel one way or the other.
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