Posted on 03/29/2015 3:51:35 AM PDT by Dave346
PM warns of ‘Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis'; officials say Tehran has agreed to ship out all enriched uranium to Russia
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday against the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, as Iranian and Western officials in Lausanne, Switzerland were rushing to reach a framework agreement by an end-of-month deadline.
“After the Beirut-Damascus-Baghdad axis, Iran is maneuvering from the south to take over the entire Middle East,” Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, one of the last for his outgoing government. “The Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is dangerous for mankind and must be stopped.”
Netanyahu told ministers that he had spoken with Republican leaders in the US Senate and “conveyed our serious concern regarding the arrangement with Iran at the nuclear talks. This agreement confirms all our fears and exceeds them.
“While [world powers] convene to sign this deal, Iran’s proxies in Yemen are conquering large swaths of land in an effort to overtake the Bab al-Mandab straits, so that they can change the balance of power in shipping oil,” he said, referring to recent unrest in Yemen.
The United States and Iran have moved close to agreement on key aspects of a nuclear deal but some problems remain four days ahead of a target date for an initial agreement, officials said Sunday.
Two officials told The Associated Press that Iran has tentatively agreed to limit the number of machines it could use to enrich uranium to 6,000 — or even less — at its main site.
Diplomats are in Switzerland for talks ahead of a March 31 target for the outline of a final deal to be negotiated by the end of June.
The officials said Iran has agreed to ship out all enriched uranium it produces to Russia. Enriched uranium can be used to make the fissile core of a nuclear weapon.
They said problems remain on the length of any restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, monitoring Tehran’s compliance and other issues.
The officials demanded anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the confidential talks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry canceled plans to return to the United States for an event honoring his late Senate colleague Edward Kennedy in order to remain at the ongoing talks in Switzerland.
Israeli officials reiterated their concerns over the emerging deal on Sunday, warning that the reported terms would not do enough to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Interior Minister Gilad Erdan, one of the top members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said that while Western powers and Iran may be about to shake hands on an agreement in the coming days, there could still be time to influence the terms of the final deal, due by the end of June.
“It’s true that a deal is close, and there is a chance that an agreement on basic principles will be reached in the coming days,” Erdan told Army Radio. “But until the final agreement, which is supposed to be signed with Iran by the end of June, there are still a wide range of diplomatic options. If, God forbid, it happens, Israel will also be required to reassess the whole resulting security situation.”
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, a confidant of Netanyahu, said that the deal was “full of holes,” and that he hoped US President Barack Obama would keep to his word that “no deal is better than a bad deal.”
Steinitz, in an interview with Army Radio, noted that Iran hadn’t provided adequate explanations to the UN’s nuclear watchdog over the nature of its previous nuclear research.
Everything going according to plan - the new Obama-inspired Arab-Spring Axis of Evil.
Not so much. Egypt fell back to the original status and military-led government. Syria’s little civil war fell apart, with ISIS now concentrated on Iraq, which the Saudis intended to topple Assad and put a friendly gov’t in place has failed. Iran is in Iraq and trying to be some ‘solution’. The Saudis are now fairly worried about the fall of Yemen.
If you ask me...for every step forward by the administration...they’ve gone two steps back.
What about the puppetmasters who put him up to it... there has to be far more to this, with “folks” like Valjar in the middle.
Surely there is. If you cut off the head of a snake it no longer bites.
it would be nice to say that we have no more menace if big ears is deposed, but that would not be true. this is more like a medusa.
We have to have a starting point.
the medusa’s heart has to have a stake through it, to shamelessly mix metaphors
Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States need to attack Iran now. Obama is cementing their own destruction or subjugation.
Ping
anything bad enough to make saudi arabia consider being friends with israel has to be pretty doggone bad
why oh why does barack want to encourage a jihadist arms race under the flimsiest of veils?
Don’t worry, Obama will leave office in January 2017.
After all, he’s law abiding and follows the Constitution.
Agreed, Obama is a highly visible world leader. If the American people hand him a sentence that is significant for crimes committed. It is a wake up call to the world, no more Mr Girlieman.
oh sure it will “all” go to russia. maybe some of it will go to moscow, in a bomb.
I made the statement in 2009 that this guy would not leave office easily.
he is a puppet and people know he is a puppet. if people are to trust the usa again, puppetmasters must be humbled too.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
might follow all constitutional formality for that, but he will leave his jackboot prints all over the face of america until that time, and then even if he gets the treatment his pals will sit and crow.
What else to do. With the currant crop of spineless republicans in DC.
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