Ruh Roh: Israel getting antsy over Iran - P 5+1 talks
Israel - the country to whom it matters the most - is getting antsy over the lack of progress in talks between the P 5+1 countries and Iran. The current round of negotiations between the world powers and Iran is "not working," a senior Israeli official said Monday, adding that after two meetings there is "not an iota of evidence indicating the Iranians are in any way serious about curbing their nuclear program."If this is where we are in September, I think Israel will do something to force the issue.
Israel was briefed by a senior American team over the weekend about what happened at last week's talks in Baghdad, and the official said what the international community put on the table "is less than what is needed, and even those minimal demands were rejected by the Iranians."
According to the official, the Iranians have succeeded in changing the world's demands. "In the previous rounds of talks, when Iran was only enriching uranium up to three percent, the world's demand was for a full halt to enrichment. Now that they are enriching up to 20% there are those in the world saying they are able to accept a certain amount of enrichment," he said.
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Israel, the official said, was "skeptical in the extreme" about the current talks, and said the Iranians have bought themselves two months to move their nuclear ambitions forward – five weeks from the first meeting in Istanbul on April 14 to last week's session in Baghdad, and now another three weeks between that meeting and the next one scheduled for June 19 in Moscow.
"They are successfully playing for time," the official said.
Netanyahu, in a meeting with senators Mark Udall (D-CO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) said the Iranians were playing "nuclear chess." Tehran, he said, might decide to sacrifice a pawn – i.e. give some concessions – in order to "keep their king," which is defined in Jerusalem as Iran keeping its nuclear program intact.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Iranian nuclear threat, Israeli attack on Iran, P 5+1
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:24 AM
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