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Iran deal ‘done,’ Israeli report says, after major US concessions
Times of Israel ^ | July 10, 2015, 2:59 pm EDT

Posted on 07/10/2015 1:35:56 PM PDT by Dave346

Channel 2 analyst Ehud Yaari says agreement will be signed early next week after US drops demand for snap inspections; Obama faces challenge of securing Congress’ approval

A deal has been reached between the world powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program after a series of major American concessions, Ehud Yaari, the Middle East affairs commentator for Israel’s Channel 2 television, said Friday night. “It is done. It is done,” he said, and will be signed “early next week.”

The aim of the agreement is to put a negotiated end to a 13-year standoff with Iran over its suspect nuclear program and to block its pathway to developing a nuclear bomb in exchange for lifting biting global sanctions. Israel’s leadership has relentlessly opposed the emerging agreement, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that it will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal.

According to Yaari, Israel’s most respected Middle East analyst, the deal was reached because the Americans “have made a series of capitulations over the past two to three weeks in almost every key aspect that was being debated.”

Yaari said that even those in the US who had supported the agreement with Iran “admit that it is worse than they thought.” Now, he said, the ball is in the court of Democratic lawmakers who have to decide whether to support their president as he seeks to secure Congressional approval, or to join the vocal Republican opposition to an agreement.

One major concession, Yaari said, is the issue of inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, which has long been a sticking point in the negotiations. According to Yaari, the US negotiators have given in to an Iranian demand that inspections are “managed” — in other words, there will be no surprise visits, only those that are pre-arranged and approved by the Iranian regime.

While there has been no official word that the deal is finalized, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday evening that progress had been made in the talks, and praised what he called the “constructive” atmosphere.

“I think we have resolved some of the things that were outstanding and we’ve made some progress,” he said, speaking to a few reporters as he met with his team of experts in Vienna.

Meetings have been happening all day, Kerry said, adding: “We have a couple of different lines of discussion that are going on right now.”

“The atmosphere is very constructive,” he told the reporters who travelled with him from Washington.

“We still have a couple of very difficult issues, and we’ll be sitting down to discuss those in the very near term – this evening and into tomorrow.”

The talks are now heading into their third weekend in Vienna. Kerry met Friday morning with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Zarif in an effort to close remaining gaps.

The terms of a 2013 interim accord under which Iran has suspended much of its uranium enrichment in return for some sanctions relief were extended to Monday in a bid to overcome a deadlock.

France’s Laurent Fabius and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond are also due to return to the Austrian capital Saturday in the hopes of advancing the deal.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baddeal; bomb; capitulation; concessions; deal; imamobama; iran; irandeal; israel; kerry; lebanon; mullahobama; nuclear; obama; obamasfault; surrender; terror; war; waronterror
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To: Dave346

Pray Israel will not allow this to be.
Israel could eliminate Iran’s command and control in one shot, leaving their government a headless corpse.


21 posted on 07/10/2015 1:56:14 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: jazusamo

Barack Obama could not negotiate an acceptable wet dream.


22 posted on 07/10/2015 2:02:17 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Norm Lenhart

This mess is entirely the fault of Obama and his foreign policy team.

My Senator who I supported and sent to DC is not a lesser evil. he is Tom Cotton.

I have no connection to the Senate leadership nor the lesser evils you refer to,


23 posted on 07/10/2015 2:04:21 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: Dave346
Let's give credit where credit is due.

Since it turns out that the Ayatollah Khomenei was right all along when he referred to the United States of America as "the Great Satan," maybe Iran will end up leading a more responsible global empire now that the U.S. has exposed its diabolical agenda.

24 posted on 07/10/2015 2:05:15 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Dave346

Well Israel, I sure hope you help us fight off ‘slob boy’ and his Muslim brotherhood buddies when they start here....

...sorry we can’t help you guys, but one thing you got going that we don’t...you live on God’s Land and He’s got your back....


25 posted on 07/10/2015 2:07:58 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: C19fan

The only reason I can see for GOPe agreeing to this kind of travesty is so that Republicans don’t get tagged as racist for scuttling Obama’s priceless legacy. Profiles in courage all around.


26 posted on 07/10/2015 2:09:11 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Cold Heat

Well SOMEONE put the GOP in power that stood silently and allowed this without a peep. So who was it? The people that vote them in or the people that voted for conservatives?

SOMEONE is responsible.


27 posted on 07/10/2015 2:09:15 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Dave346

What cities will be destroyed by Iran?


28 posted on 07/10/2015 2:10:28 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

If they are smart, Washington D.C.


29 posted on 07/10/2015 2:13:17 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: tflabo

Post the prophecies of Ezekiel if you wish!


30 posted on 07/10/2015 2:15:43 PM PDT by hondact200
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To: Dave346
“It is done. It is done,” he said, and will be signed “early next week."

Likely to also be signed next week, though with quite a bit less public fanfare, is an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia related to their joint cooperation in obliterating Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon for quite a number of years. Barack Chamberlain's expected cave-in to the mad mullahs was a necessary pre-condition to the Israeli-Saudi pact.

31 posted on 07/10/2015 2:19:27 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Dave346

Obama: the Neville Chamberlain for our time.


32 posted on 07/10/2015 2:19:45 PM PDT by Calpublican (No Comprendo)
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To: Dave346
Iran deal ‘done,’ Israeli report says, after major US concessions

ANY CHANCE at all that Mitchie McConnell and his senate morons will stop this?

33 posted on 07/10/2015 2:27:36 PM PDT by 21st Century Crusader (August 26, 1191)
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To: HarleyLady27
"If they are smart, Washington D.C."

Why would they bomb their ally? Eliminating DC might give the USA a chance to fight back.

34 posted on 07/10/2015 2:31:27 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: cableguymn

Getting the bomb is only the first step in Obama & VJ’s plan. Iran using the bomb on Israel is the second step.

Iran does not care about casualties, only about creating enough blood to bring the 12th Imam out of the well he’s lived in for the past 600 years and who will bring all of humanity to Paradise - aka extinction.


35 posted on 07/10/2015 2:43:01 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Dave346
Israel, don't wait for this communists King Obama and his communists empire to hold you back. Attack now and with such deadly force Iran will melt.
36 posted on 07/10/2015 2:49:29 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: HarleyLady27

Darn shame about the museums and other buildings.
Maybe we let them build a neutron bomb?....


37 posted on 07/10/2015 2:52:17 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Dave346

” after major US concessions “

Well, Duh, any ol’ freeper could have told ya that....


38 posted on 07/10/2015 2:57:59 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Dave346

If this agreement leads to many being murdered, will the survivors of an iranian nuclear attack remember who those were involved in such “negotiations” and bring them to Justice? Just askin’.


39 posted on 07/10/2015 2:58:40 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Dave346

Peace in our time.


40 posted on 07/10/2015 2:59:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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