‘Obama willing to up Iran heat in return for peace talks’
‘Obama willing to up Iran heat in return… JPost – International.
US President Barack Obama is willing to up pressure against the Iranian nuclear program if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will open talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on borders and security issues, The Sunday Times reported.
According to the report, the US promised to raise the heat on the Iran issue in return for more open talks with the Palestinian leader even if core issues such as Jerusalem and the issues of Palestinian refugees is not raised.
The Times quoted Aaron David Miller, of the Woodrow Wilson Center, an adviser on the Middle East to six US secretaries of state as saying “Barack Obama does not want to be the American president on whose watch Iran acquires a nuclear weapon or be accused of presiding over the demise of what’s left of the two-state solution.”
Two of the prime minister’s aides will arrive in Washington this week in an attempt to link the Iranian and Palestinian issues, The Times reported. If the report over Obama’s attempt to appease Netanyahu is authentic, the White House is receptive to the link.
White House officials spent weeks in Israel attempting to form an alliance of pro-western states, including Turkey and Jordan, to help stabilize the region, The Sunday Times also reported.
WarSclerotic 
February 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Someone at The Sunday Times is reading this blog closely, we suppose.
February 10, 2013 at 12:41 PM
It wouldn’t surprise me, Luis… 🙂
February 10, 2013 at 1:11 PM
…I said that because we discussed this topic here and its possible ramifications long before this article, or my memory is playing with me.
February 12, 2013 at 10:45 AM
No doubt, Mr. Khameini is shaking in his turban, just as much as Mr. Netanyahu is shaking in his $ 2000 suit.