Posted on 10/08/2014 11:49:47 AM PDT by Dave346
With Washington pressure rising, secretary of state heads to Vienna next week as target date for agreement on curbing Tehran atomic program nears
America’s top diplomat is plunging back into Iranian nuclear talks, keeping one eye on the longtime US adversary and the other on political developments at home, as pressure rises in Washington for a deal ensuring the Islamic Republic cannot become a nuclear state.
The prospect of a Republican takeover of the Senate means Secretary of State John Kerry will be on a tight leash with a late-November deadline approaching for an agreement.
Kerry, European Union negotiator Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet in Vienna next Wednesday, the EU said.
Another negotiating round is expected shortly after to include Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
There are seven weeks to seal a comprehensive accord easing economic penalties against Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. Failure could mean the process has fallen apart.
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“How much longer will the Israelis stand down? “
Probably bought themselves a year with the explosion. Without that I would have said November 5th.
I disagree - think all war is coming before the new year.
But this has already dragged out far longer than I expected.
Debka’s website has been down since 9/15 which is a big red flag in my book.
People count on Debka to give inside info from Israel.
Only reason for them to go dark is to not give anything away.
Kerry the marshmallow. My 4-year old grandson could negotiaite better.
Catherine Ashton hates Israel and Israelis, but of course, these so-called negotiations have *nothing to do* with *Israel*.
ISIS has kept the pressure on to settle for anything, Iran knows it, and is indeed behind it. The Saudis meanwhile have started to pump oil harder than any time since Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, and for the same reason. In the short term that is a valentine to the western world, and undermines Iran’s ability to bring in foreign exchange, putting temporary pressure the other way. ISIS by contrast doesn’t seem to mind collecting cash for oil fields under its control, but the GCC and US have been bombing them.
The overall price is high enough that it won’t lead to the kind of, uh, market consolidation such as Saddam attempted by nabbing Kuwait’s oil fields (and in the years before that, by starting wellhead fires in Kuwaiti fields), but the whole works is sliding toward war, everyone is aware of it. There’s more jihad now than at any time since the 7th century, and it’s bankrolled by oil money.
Lately we’ve also seen some meme-building for regime change in Qatar, which is and has been a roaring mouse and ally of Iran. Qatar enabled and recruited the US-led multinational forces that drove Saddam out of Kuwait and ultimately drove him from power.
Iran’s been inciting and bankrolling Shiite unrest/riots throughout the Arab world, and is the driving force behind the messes in Africa, as well as the Syrian civil war (via their Alawite ally/client Assad), the Lebanese civil war (now under truce; Iran’s proxy thugs occupy southern Lebanon and basically bully what passes for the gov’t), demonstrations in Turkey (which has a large Alawite minority, and the Alawites are an offshoot of Shia Islam, despite labored and ridiculous claims to the contrary), and of course their Hamas client which has attacked Israel continually for years.
That’s interesting.
Debka’s about as based in fact as the Ostro Network of WWII, but that’s an interesting observation!
The war has never stopped, it’s been going on continually for fourteen centuries. And it’s been a hot war since ISIS emerged last year or so. It looks very much as if ISIS will be in control of an unbroken swath from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, and this before December 31.
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