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| ‘This is Biden's last chance to stop Iran from getting the bomb' - Steinitz | |
| 2022-07-11 | |
| [JPost] I'm thinking the Democrats don't care "All the talk of bringing Israel and Saudi Arabia closer is very nice, but the Iran nuclear threat is the only real game in town now," former minister Yuval Steinitz argued. US President Joe Biden should use his visit to the region this week to ensure that Iran knows there is a credible US military threat if it continues advancing its nuclear program, Likud MK Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday. Steinitz, who as strategic affairs and intelligence minister coordinated Israel’s talks with the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members: China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, plus Germany) as they engaged in nuclear negotiations with Iran in 2013-2015, expressed concerns that Tehran advanced its nuclear program significantly farther than ever before in the past year because it no longer felt threatened by the US, and that Washington-backed air defense coordination between Israel and Gulf States is no replacement. "The whole visit is only worthwhile if it gets one result: A US military threat to Iran," Steinitz said. "That is what we have been missing in the past year, which allowed Iran, for the first time, to race to the bomb." Steinitz expressed concern about Biden’s opinion article in Saturday’s Washington Post, in which the president wrote: "My administration will continue to increase diplomatic and economic pressure until Iran is ready to return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, as I remain prepared to do." It mentions "diplomatic and economic pressure," but not a military one, he pointed out. Before Iran entered negotiations with world powers in 2013, it enriched uranium to 20% purity; while the agreement was in place in 2015-2018, it did not pass the 3.5% enrichment limit stipulated by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 We need to quit saying "Biden needs to....." and start saying "Biden Handlers need to ....". |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-07-11 09:10 |
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| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-07-11 08:20 |