Iran’s deputy FM to Israel Radio: Nuclear deal can ‘open new horizons’ with all nations
( Does Iran think it can fool Israel by extending its con? They know better… Have they decided to make the deal acceptable to Israel? How can they? – JW )
In rare comments to Israeli reporter, Abbas Araqchi also says ‘yes’ when asked if Israel could live in peace with any agreement reached between world powers and Iran
Israel would be able to live in peace with any deal reached by Iran and world powers, and the agreement would “open new horizons” with all nations, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said to Israel Radio on Wednesday.
“Any agreement reached will open new horizons in [our] relations with all states,” Araqchi told Israel Radio reporter Gideon Kutz. Araqchi also responded with a “Yes” when Kutz asked him whether Israel would be able to live in peace with whatever deal would be reached between Western powers and the Islamic Republic.
Kutz told The Times of Israel by phone from Geneva that he was wearing an Israel Radio press badge when he interviewed the Iranian official, and that “the nature of my questions” made his identity as an Israeli journalist obvious to Araqchi. If so, Araqchi’s readiness to answer questions from an Israeli journalist is highly unusual; Iranian officials routinely avoid all open contact with the Israeli media.
Araqchi said Iran and the P5+1 nations were striving to arrive at an agreement about the objectives of the negotiations by the end of Wednesday’s round of talks.
Another Iranian official in Geneva also spoke to an Israeli journalist, Channel 2′s Arad Nir. Nir said Wednesday afternoon that he introduced himself as an Israeli reporter and asked the official, whom he didn’t name, whether Iran was likely to change its attitude to Israel. “It doesn’t depend on me,” the official said. That answer wasn’t particularly informative, said Nir, but the fact that the Iranian responded at all to an Israeli reporter was new. “In the past, they’d look right through me,” Nir said.
The next round of negotiations between the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, known collectively as the P5+1, and Iran are set to take place next month; it is not clear whether they would involve top ranking officials.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Islamic Republic expressed possible willingness to accept snap inspections of its nuclear sites by international officials, the AFP news agency reported.
The P5+1 sat down with Iran Wednesday for the second day of nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a diplomatic resolution of the standoff over Tehran’s unsanctioned nuclear program.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said at a meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday that Israel is following the talks with “hope and concern.”
“The concern is that Geneva 2013 will turn into Munich 1938,” he said. “History shows that the whole world celebrated and then World War II broke out.”
Responding to a question about whether Tehran’s proposal to the world powers included adding a protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty mandating unannounced inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, Iran’s lead negotiator, Araqchi, was quoted by the semi-official Iranian news agency IRNA as saying, “None of these issues exist in the first step, but they are part of our last step.”
However, Araqchi was cited on Tuesday by IRNA as saying the additional protocol “does not exist” in the offer.
Araqchi said negotiations with world powers “were held in a highly positive atmosphere and the two sides were serious when speaking of their issues,” Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
Last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran would open its nuclear facilities to international inspectors as part of broad negotiations with the United States that could eventually restore diplomatic relations between the decades-long adversaries.
US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki was reluctant to call the proposal a breakthrough, saying that discussions were “ongoing” and therefore it would be premature to call it a “breakthrough at this stage,” according to AFP.
“However, it certainly is positive that there was enough information to have technical discussions,” she added.
The US and other Western powers have imposed crippling sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. In recent months, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has reached out to the West, engaging in direct communication with the US for the first time.
The talks in Geneva are being seen as a key test of Iran’s overtures to the West. The P5+1 nations are eager to see whether Iran’s new style since Rouhani’s election will translate into progress on dispelling concerns over Tehran developing nuclear weapons.
Israel has repeatedly warned that Iran is seeking to dupe the West, get sanctions lifted, and retain its nuclear weapons program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Iran be stripped of its entire uranium enrichment capacity as part of any arrangement under which sanctions could be eased.
The Associated Press and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
WarSclerotic 
October 16, 2013 at 4:37 PM
What nonsense. Iranian official spoke to an Israeli reporter. Big deal! Hitler lied point blank to the British Prime Minister.
October 16, 2013 at 4:51 PM
Strong observation, sir. But, sometimes the History events just get a life of their own, and the inevitable will take place, after all. Just like then.
October 16, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Does Iran now meet Israel’s conditions which PM Netanyahu put in his speech to the UN General Assembly? Of course not.
Netanyahu:
Well, the only diplomatic solution that would work is one that fully dismantles Iran’s nuclear weapons program and prevents it from having one in the future.
First, cease all uranium enrichment. This is called for by several Security Council resolutions. Second, remove from Iran’s territory the stockpiles of enriched uranium. Third, dismantle the infrastructure for nuclear breakout capability, including the underground facility at Qom and the advanced centrifuges in Natanz.
And, four, stop all work at the heavy water reactor in Iraq aimed at the production of plutonium. These steps would put an end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and eliminate its breakout capability.
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/netanyahu-un-speech-2013-video-and.html
October 16, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Does Iran now meet Israel’s conditions which PM Netanyahu put in his speech to the UN General Assembly? Of course not.
Netanyahu:
Well, the only diplomatic solution that would work is one that fully dismantles Iran’s nuclear weapons program and prevents it from having one in the future.
First, cease all uranium enrichment. This is called for by several Security Council resolutions. Second, remove from Iran’s territory the stockpiles of enriched uranium. Third, dismantle the infrastructure for nuclear breakout capability, including the underground facility at Qom and the advanced centrifuges in Natanz.
And, four, stop all work at the heavy water reactor in Iraq aimed at the production of plutonium. These steps would put an end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and eliminate its breakout capability.
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/netanyahu-un-speech-2013-video-and.html
October 16, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Mladen, nothing of those conditions will be met. Look, I know by now that you not only love history, you are also very good on it.
So, in your expertise, don’t you think that the world simply want some hundred of millions to be slaughtered in a new world war?
Because otherwise, they should be done something with those Iranian clowns a long time ago, already. Nothing the stupid Europe did learned from its own shit? Are they so damned stupid they even don’t see the Iranian crap being thrown on their own noses?
I supposed they are so damned stupid. And the results will be accordingly.
October 16, 2013 at 6:32 PM
“So, in your expertise, don’t you think that the world simply want some hundred of millions to be slaughtered in a new world war?
Because otherwise, they should be done something with those Iranian clowns a long time ago, already.”
Don’t think so Luis, those who want peace seem oblivious to reality, and honestly the same could be said about Israel.. We all know the appropiate Churchill quote by now, it’s been repeated several times on this site.
October 16, 2013 at 7:11 PM
John, I just use a rhetorical expression and used it also as a figure of style, relating to the line you quote. Of course all want peace. Of course that can blind them. Of course no one wants anyone to be killed in any war. I’m with you on this one. But they better take care, all those blind peace seekers. You know from what.
October 16, 2013 at 7:48 PM
Understood! These posts can be difficult to interoperate at times.
October 16, 2013 at 8:02 PM
I do not know what to say. I can only repeat Churchill’s remark about the unteachability of mankind. He was right. Until something happens to us personally we just do not understand it. Have been guilty of that myself. For years we had had reports of rockets falling on Sderot some 45 km from here. I sympathized with the population there but only when Grads stated falling on our own homes did we understand how it feels to find shelter in seconds or die. Now every time I hear an ambulance I react. If you have not read it before here is the link http://madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/11/beer-sheva-under-grad-attack.html
As for history, some people have the gift to write better than others and George F Kennan is probably the best. I have been rereading George F. Kennan’s Memoirs 1925-1950 and the book is superb. I now regret that when I lived in Princeton in 1985 I never had the chutzpah to just contact him. He was then in his eighties.
October 16, 2013 at 4:46 PM
If this is true and the uranians are starting to make statements on Israeli Radio while they are knowing to who they are talking about, if this is true – we need to repeat that – then ”something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. And we’ll get nasty, too, by saying we are believing shit of all those candies the uranians are trying to serve us here, in Israel. The more the Iranians are nice and cozy, the more I am worried. And as such, Netanyahu should be. Ok, he is. But what can he do? This is the question, isn’t it? Not what Bibi wants to do but what Bibi will do. I know you all here will hate me for this, but Bibi will wait. I know, I know…But don’t get angry on me. I’m saying only what I think he is planning to do. And he will plan different than we here think the things should be and even against his own wishes.
Bibi will not attack now and, in our opinion, he will wait for 2014. I’m really sorry, but I cant write here but the things that I ”feel” that are right.
October 16, 2013 at 4:53 PM
The Persian bride is seducing the world and they’ll fall hard for “peace in our time”!
” It’s deja vu all over again”
Yogi Berra
October 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM
The Persian bride is just a whore, sorry my Romanian.
October 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM
agreed!
October 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM
Israel won’t be able to prevent a deal, simply because it has no part in the negotiations. The deal is playing out like I predicted years ago. Iran will sign some additional protocols, will limit its enrichment, will allow more inspections, but will keep its right to enrichment and the full fuel cycle.
October 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM
Thank you Renbe.
At least we now know what the Mullahs’ current bottom line is.
October 16, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Its good that our ol’ friend Renbe is still with us, here. It makes me feel better, somehow.
October 17, 2013 at 4:07 PM
Time will tell Joseph, but you can hardly deny that my predictions thus far have proven to be rather accurate.
October 16, 2013 at 5:22 PM
I’ll be with you on this one, but even you, ”Renbe” didn’t saw this coming: the brilliant U turn in the Persian diplomacy. The Iranians are simply geniuses in the diplomatic relations. What a relief. Seriously, Renbe. You all are damn good on this. I feel a little uncomfortable here, in Israel, right now. You have to be proud of yourselves. Your Supreme Leader Khamenei, Genius on Shiites Religious Needs, played that brilliant. The truth is, I feel a little envy for the old jackal. He checkmates us on this one. But hey, wasn’t the chess game been discovered in Persia? Or may be in India…what the fuck…I’m sad, Renbe. Tell us something nice here, we are hearing you in Israel. Tell us you are loving us. Tell us a nice lie. We need someone from Iran ( Urania ) to be gentle with us. You know, one of those days…. Catch with you later.
October 17, 2013 at 4:11 PM
What brilliant U-turn? The current Iranian ‘concessions’ are merely cosmetic. The point is that no one, except Mr. Netanyahu and his fan club, believe that Iran wants to build a nuclear deterrent. Time to close this chapter and move on.
October 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM
I said U turn regarding the diplomacy. Not regarding the concessions. Pay attention when the teacher is talking.
October 16, 2013 at 8:03 PM
“The Senate Banking Committee is expected to draft a new sanctions package later this month, mirroring legislation passed by the House in July that blacklists Iran’s mining and construction sectors and commits the United States to the goal of eliminating all Iranian petroleum sales worldwide by 2015.”
Full article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/suckers-us-threatens-iran-sanctions-20458700
Could this be why Iran is so anxious to bargain now? It was said in the past that the US would suffer too much if Iranian oil was taken off the market. Not now. The US is close to energy independence and the removal of Iranian oil would not impact the US as in the past.
IMHO, It’s still all about money…for now. 😎
October 17, 2013 at 4:16 PM
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRIMUS1&f=A
But it is not only oil , but it is the trading of oil in dollars.
October 17, 2013 at 4:41 PM
Fooling in not the right expression, everybody know it, but they are looking for a working solution, Israel would not be pleased, nothing to do whit fooling.