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US reportedly discusses possible interim Iran nuclear deal with Israel, other allies
2023-04-04
Is there such a thing as negative genius? Because the Biden administration is swimming in it.
[IsraelTimes] Washington raises proposal that would have Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
limit enrichment to 60% in exchange for sanctions relief, but Tehran only wants return to full 2015 agreement, reports say


The US has discussed with its allies a proposal for resuming talks with Iran aimed at reaching an interim deal to freeze Iran’s nuclear program, according to Monday reports.

Iran has raced ahead with enrichment activity in recent months while talks on restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement have stalled.

US officials informed counterparts in Israel, La Belle France, the UK and Germany that they were considering proposing a deal in which Tehran would curb nuclear enrichment above 60 percent purity, a step nearing weapons-grade levels, in exchange for sanctions relief, the Axios and Walla news websites reported.

US officials began discussing the proposal in January, and the US allies were informed about the idea in February, according to the reports, which cited 10 sources, including Israeli officials and Western diplomats.

Iran knows about the US proposal, but the Iranians are not on board, saying they only want to return to the full agreement, the reports said.

The White House told the news sites in response that it "refuses to comment on second-hand rumors."

The US National Security Council said President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
is committed to stopping Iran "and we still believe diplomacy is the best way to achieve that objective."

Talks between Iran and the US to revive the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), restarted in 2021 but fell apart last year, after months of halting progress. Israel opposed a resumption of the deal.

Iran and the Western powers that are party to the talks reached several interim deals to freeze enrichment and suspend sanctions in the years leading up to the 2015 JCPOA agreement.

The Biden administration has long supported a diplomatic path to halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but talks stalled as Iran started supporting Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, and cracked down on domestic rights protesters, irking the US and other Western countries.

Raising tensions further, inspectors from the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
nuclear watchdog in February found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7 percent in Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site.

Uranium at nearly 84% is almost at weapons-grade levels of 90% — meaning any stockpile of that material could be quickly enriched for the purposes of building an atomic bomb if Iran chooses. The inspectors only mentioned finding "particles" at that level, suggesting Iran wasn’t yet stockpiling above 60% — the level it has been enriching at for some time, which nonproliferation experts already say has no civilian use for Tehran.

The US intelligence community has continued to maintain its assessment that Iran isn’t pursuing an atomic bomb, but American officials have said Iran could produce enough fissile material for a weapon within weeks and would only need several additional months to assemble a weapon for use.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military action against Tehran, and Israel and Iran have been engaged in a high-stakes shadow war across the wider Middle East since the nuclear deal’s collapse.

Tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated in recent weeks amid a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s attributed to Israel in Syria, a terror attack in northern Israel that is believed to have been carried out by an intruder from Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, and threats between Israeli officials and Iran.

Israel has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in Syria over the last decade. Two Iranian advisers were allegedly killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria in the past month.

A military source said Monday that Iran appears to have been behind the launch of a drone that was brought down over Israeli airspace this week.
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#4  Amusingly RAJ, ValJar has the hard-on for this, and she undoubtedly has a dedicated landline into Susan Rice's Office. ValJar still lives with Chicago Jesus and Big Mike at the Kalorama Central Committee Headquarters, so you do have to wonder how that woodie works on a Saturday night?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-04-04 11:22  

#3  I wonder who the unnamed allies are.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-04-04 10:32  

#2  Iran will need financial help from somewhere to keep its regime in power. That Obama would like to provide that help, indicates that he has never been dedicated to American interests. Realistically, Jim Jordan had it right. We don’t need to send them money, they would hate us just the same for free.
Let Russia and China will provide Ayatollah propping cash instead for a time. Eventually, both sponsors will become distracted with other issues and the money flow will dry up. By then Iran will own a useless arsenal of a couple rudimentary nukes that they can demonstrate but will only be good to hit Israel or us once in limited fashion.
In the end, their chain stitch magic carpet regime is snagged and will pull apart in midair.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-04-04 10:22  

#1  Obama losing his influence on Slow Joe? Obama's got a major hard-on for this deal.
Posted by: Raj   2023-04-04 00:11  

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