Posted on 03/08/2022 6:16:20 AM PST by Red Badger
03-07-2022
JERUSALEM, Israel — While the world remains focused on Ukraine, a major geopolitical event is unfolding in Vienna. The new or renegotiated Iranian nuclear deal is reportedly close to signing and critics are concerned this version is worse than the original.
After 11 months of negotiations, Israel’s chief takeaway is alarm.
“We look to Vienna, and we are deeply troubled by what we see,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “For Israel and all the stability-seeking forces in the Middle East, the emerging deal as it seems, is highly likely to create a more violent, more volatile Middle East.”
Former Trump Admin Officials Say Iran Nuclear Deal Won't Work, It's Time for 'Excruciating Pressure' “They said they were going to get a longer, stronger deal. This deal will be shorter and weaker,” says former State Department advisor on Iran, Gabriel Noronha.
Just days before an expected announcement, Noronha released information provided to him by current State Department officials.
“My former colleagues that I worked with that were so distressed by what they were seeing that they asked me to go public with the details.
Because they said the Congress had not been informed and the American public had not been informed and they were just so worried by the concessions that were being made by the negotiating teams that they felt they needed to say something about it,” says Noronha.
According to him, the deal clears the way for a nuclear Iran.
“Unfortunately they’re not getting any of the sunsets on Iran’s nuclear restrictions lifted or extended. And so, in only nine years Iran will have a clear path to a nuclear weapon,” says Noronha. “The American people need to know that this deal is illegal. It is dangerous to American national security. It’s dangerous to the regional and global security in both in the short term and in the long term,” says Noronha.
Russia, a key player in these negotiations, wanted written guarantees that sanctions from its war on Ukraine will not stop its trade with Iran.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed these demands as “irrelevant,” telling CBS News that the sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine “have nothing to do with the Iran nuclear deal.”
The deal would also reportedly provide billions in sanctions relief to Iran.
“There are not restrictions in this deal in how this money can be spent and fueled to Iran’s proxies. So, we can expect that a lot is going to go to Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis … So we’re going to really see over the next few years, it may take a few months to get going, we’re going to see a rapid proliferation of terrorist activity. We’re going to see more destabilizing activity and we’re going to see Iran's influence and power grow through the region,” says Noronha.
That power represents an existential threat to Israel.
“Let me be clear: Israel will not accept Iran as a nuclear threshold state. We have a clear and un-negotiable red line; Israel will always maintain its freedom of action to defend itself."
Israel's pledge to defend itself along with Iran’s nuclear ambition puts these two enemies on a collision course for war.
Self-loathing and hating your own culture should be a crime with the death penalty.
Israel PM was just in Russia. Israel is going to take things with Iran into their own hands
Look at Iran over there! And over there - Russia! Watch out for China! Now North Korea!
LOOK AT OUR OWN COUNTRY’S BORDERS AND LAWS!!!
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Of course it gives Iran the bomb. Dems have worked tirelessly to get Israel nuked.
“Israel will not accept Iran as a nuclear threshold state” -— I guess that means war before they actually become a nuclear power, which makes obvious sense. Just not sure I ever heard them say it so clearly what the re-line truly is.
It's OK, if the Iranians will agree to test it on Washington DC.
Who cares? Biden likes Ukraine above all, especially above Israel.
We are officially in WW 3. We have passed the tipping point and now we get to watch the horror unfold. All thanks to neocon RINOs and Marxist Democrats.
“Israel will not accept Iran as a nuclear threshold state” Just not sure I ever heard them say it so clearly what the re-line truly is.
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They have been saying those exact words for decades - just the US media ignored most of the instances.
That's silly. With no deal in place they have a clear path today.
Nukes for Iran has been the goal since Obama.
Thanks Red Badger. Another alibi for Biden -- he couldn't get Iran to agree to anything other than exactly what they plan to do anyway, so he uses the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine (which he supports) as cover to undermine Israel. The Kenyan-born muzzie did the same types of things during his fake presidency.
Is anyone surprised that Jao Bai-din, here in Val Jarrett’s third term, is continuing the policy of sending billions to enemies?
Iran has been at war with America since 1979. They have killed hundreds of Americans. We have a real interest in ensuring that they don’t get nukes. Speaking of which if you think oil is expensive now, just wait for a nuclear Tehran
We overthrew their government in the 1950s and installed a pro-Western puppet; they reversed that in 1979 but we’ve never been at war with them. If anything, we killed far more Iranians by arming Iraq to the teeth during their 1980s war - and then Americans had to fight those Iraqis armed with those same US weapons in the early 90s in Gulf War I.
I don’t want a nuclear Iran, but I didn’t want a nuclear Red China, India, or Pakistan either.
In 1979, Islammists allied with Khomeni attacked the US embassy. This was an act of war and a traditional declaration of war in Islamic countries.
f anything, we killed far more Iranians by arming Iraq to the teeth during their 1980s war - and then Americans had to fight those Iraqis armed with those same US weapons in the early 90s in Gulf War I.
We didn't kill the Iranians. The Iraqis did.
I don’t want a nuclear Iran, but I didn’t want a nuclear Red China, India, or Pakistan either.
We can stop Iran from going nuclear. And all you do is repeat leftist lies and tu quoque fallacies. You are objective pro-nuclear Iran.
They attacked our embassy after first attacking Planned Parenthood; the lack of any support for the Shah in Iran exposes your take as nonsense.
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