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Israel says it will not be bound by any nuclear deal with Iran

Thomas Kingsley
Independent
Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that Israel would not be bound by any nuclear deal with Iran and would continue to consider itself free to act "with no constraints" if necessary.

Indirect talks between Iran and the United States on salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed a week ago in Vienna. France's foreign minister said on Friday that progress had been made, although time is running out.

Bennett said in public remarks, in a briefing to a parliamentary committee:

"In regard to the nuclear talks in Vienna, we are definitely concerned... Israel is not a party to the agreements. Israel is not bound by what will be written in the agreements, if they are signed, and Israel will continue to maintain full freedom of action anywhere any time, with no constraints."

Israel, which has long warned about Iran becoming a nuclear power, has called on countries to maintain a credible military option against Iran while they pursue an agreement.

Experts have questioned whether Israel, on its own, has the military capabilities to halt what it says is an Iranian quest for nuclear weapons while Tehran continues to deny that it seeks atomic arms.

Dr Yoel Guzansky, an expert in nuclear weapons proliferation and senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, told The Independent that the comments from Mr Bennett were meant to

"preserve room for diplomatic manoeuvres. Israel is declaring to use force if necessary if push comes to shove but I think it'll be very hard for Israel during the negotiations and perhaps even harder after to do something that will jeopardise agreement."

However, he added that Israel would struggle to independently lodge an attack against Iran but in a circumstance with no other alternative, Israel "would do its best".

It comes as negotiations between world powers continue in Vienna to restore the tattered 2015 nuclear deal - which the US quit under President Trump in 2018. Mr Bennett has previously said he is not opposed to a "good" nuclear deal between Iran and world powers but has held that Israel would still be free to manoevre militarily under any agreement. He told Israeli Army Radio:

"At the end of the day, of course there can be a good deal. Is that, at the moment, under the current dynamic, expected to happen? No, because a much harder stance is needed."

Israel's foreign minister issued a similar sentiment to Mr Bennett earlier this month stating that Israel does not need permission to strike Iran. Lapid told Israel's Channel 12 on the last day of 2021:

"Israel will do whatever it needs to do to protect its security. And we don't need anybody's permission for that. That's been the case since the first day we established this state."

Talks to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal (known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)) and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president.

If the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically "snap back" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.

Comment: If Israel was truly concerned with Iran's nuclear capabilities, it would join those who want the agreement. It's habit of crying 'wolf' increases leverage and options, but only so long as it works. If the agreement comes to pass, we can bet Israel has a 'next move' - be it bluff, false flag, or direct strike. Containing Iran does not contain Israel.

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BEVAN BEVAN · 2022-01-12T03:40:20Z

Jewish/Zionists control nuclear bombs in occupied Palestine. Tell me once more: Why cannot Iran also have nuclear bombs if they wish? If those under Jewish control are for "Protection? Iran is surely entitled for the same reason? After all, it is the occupiers of Palestine that regularly and indiscriminately bombs Iran, whenever the fancy takes them?

For years and forever, the Iranians have disavowed the need for nuclear bombs, they have even passed legislation to ban them. No! the predators in this case are clearly Jewish Zionists; they are the only People in the Middle East, with a very long standing, and published, intention, to wipe out other Middle East neighbours in order to facilitate their crazed plan to create their Greater Israel , historical entitlement?.

Those Middle East neighbour's would be well advised to study the Jewish People's intentions and the manner and processes used to subjugate and annihilate the long suffering Palestinian Peoples. For this exposes, in the microcosm of Palestine, the true nature and character of Jewish Zionist's. It may not arrive in your life time, but it will become reality for your children and grand children; shame on you all for not acting to stamp it out once and for all.

alexal60 · 2022-01-12T11:57:56Z

The major issues of international geopolitics return to prominence in the new year that has just begun and there is the perception that everything is intertwined with the heavy issues that have been dragging on in recent years, starting with the Covid pandemic, the economic crisis that has hit Western countries , speculative bubbles and international crises with the dangers of conflict that arise between Russia, Ukraine and NATO, between China, Taiwan and the USA, as well as in the turbulent Middle East and the Iran question.All this suggests that, in the historical phase in which we are living, there is a landslide and a rearrangement of the main power poles known to date. This concerns in particular the US superpower which is in an inevitable process of decline that could in the short / medium term bring America into a phase of collapse. In this regard, the spectacle of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which we witnessed in the past year, was significant. The same was the case, exactly one year ago, the phase of the assault on Chapter Hill by Trump supporters, the high rate of racial violence and the climate of civil war within the States.

These are signs of the imminent debacle of the American Empire and its alleged myth of invincibility.There is also another factor that is determining epochal changes in geostrategic balances and this is given by the close cooperation that is taking place between Russia and China, the two super powers that contend with Washington for global leadership over the world and contest its overwhelming policies.

It happens that the level of frontal opposition of the Biden Administration against Moscow and Beijing has created a blockade effect between Russia and China that is increasingly consolidating as a de facto alliance between the two great countries in countering the hegemonic claims of the United States in the various areas of the world.Russian Chinese cooperation embraces various sectors from economic to energy, technological and military and this has long begun to worry Washington, so much so that this aspect is increasingly highlighted by various US analysts as a challenge to US supremacy.

The Wall Street Journal also recently found that the United States' very actions to contain the two countries have pushed them into a marriage of convenience, providing previously controversial adversaries with resources and intelligence against the common enemy.

The problem for Washington is given by the now undeniable fact that the old supremacy of the United States, and with it the system of financial capitalism dominated by an elite of billionaires, now clearly shows all its contradictions, its failures and its screwing into one. infinite bubble of crises caused or wanted to hide the decay that invests this system.The contrast that is developing between the systems in conflict with the American one is not only geopolitical, economic and military but it is above all ideological. Liberal globalism is rejected by the large emerging countries as a decadent model foreign to traditional cultures that rather retrace their history and their own religious beliefs to find reasons for pride and identification that are opposed to the model of Western materialistic consumerism and its drifts. of universalistic and techno-scientific claims.This occurs in the various continents and we find it in Asia (India, China, Pakistan) as well as in Latin America, in the Arab-Islamic world and in the Slavic and Russophile one. We are witnessing a search for a third way or a fourth political theory that is a source of inspiration for the peoples of countries that do not bow to the hegemony of the old Empire and try to follow their own path by asserting their sovereignty.

There is no denying the failure of the Western model and its crisis which is highlighted today by the disproportionate increase in poverty, inequality and the failure of the neocolonial wars that the United States and its allies have launched against various countries for the apparent purpose. to wreak havoc.In the current international scenario, the two main theaters of crisis between the blocs, from which a conflict between the super powers may arise, are Ukraine in Eastern Europe and Taiwan in the Indo Pacific.

Since 2014, relations between China and Russia have intensified under pressure from the United States. That year, the United States and its allies introduced sanctions against Russian entities and individuals for the Kremlin’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and Russian support for the insurgency in eastern Ukraine (Donbass).Since then there have been several waves of US and EU sanctions against Moscow and Russia has turned eastward, towards China in particular, to increase its export round and to obtain the financial support it needed.

Since then a more intense collaboration has also developed in the military and technological fields with frequent exchanges of equipment and know-how in the various more advanced sectors which have allowed Russia to fill the gaps resulting from the closure of some products of Western production.The same happened in the military sphere with a greater effort of connection between the Russian and Chinese forces which saw an integration of the respective command and control centers and the increasingly frequent implementation of military exercises between the forces of the two countries.

The pro-Western media lobby, which has partly lost its former influence, together with the governments of countries aligned with Atlanticism and subordination to the US, continue to speculatively exploit the themes of Ukraine and Taiwan in a unified context. And they are trying to convince the public that Russia and China, termed "autocratic powers", have appropriate and carefully coordinated plans. However, in reality, if such plans exist, they refer exclusively to the variant of political-military provocations emanating from the United States itself. In any case, the White House has obtained nothing from the frontal geopolitical pressure, rather this has had the effect of radicalizing the positions of both Beijing and Moscow with the latter which, through President Putin, has provided a very tough response to the sanction threats "Unprecedented" made by Washington, showing that Russia would react with a complete break in relations.

It is no coincidence that Beijing is following the Ukrainian crisis with extreme attention and is evaluating the solution of the tug-of-war between Washington and Moscow. The outcome of the crisis in favor of Russia, for which, in fact, China is openly fighting, is conditioned not only by the commonality of the foreign policy interests of the two countries, but also by the fact that, if Moscow manages to reach its objectives, China will capitalize on experience and, following the Russian lead, will be able to solve its problem of interest that of Taiwan as part of a single China.

Whether like it or not, the American, Russian and Chinese strategists are applying their common synergies at the diplomatic and military level in international crises to present themselves from positions of strength and in this they also attract other countries on the resistance front, from Iran to Syria to Venezuela. , who draw examples and ways of reacting to defend their interests in the face of an Empire that is becoming increasingly weaker and less and less credible.

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