Major Israel-US rift over Washington planl to let Tehran continue enriching uranium with sanctions relief
Israel announced early Thursday, Nov. 7, that it is utterly opposed to the new proposal for Iran’s nuclear program which the United States plans to put before the two-day Geneva conference beginning later today .
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, when he met US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem Wednesday night, bitterly accused the Obama administration of yielding to the Russian-backed Iranian position. Should Tehran renege on the deal, the US proposal leaves it with the capacity for enriching enough weapons-grade uranium in 10 days to build several nuclear weapons.
This US proposal calls for Iran to halt enrichment of uranium up to 20-percent grade (a short jump to weapons-grade) and slow construction on the Arak heavy water plant for plutonium production. In return, the US offers a start on selective sanctions relief. This proposal is likely to be approved by the six powers at the Geneva conference.
Kerry was reminded of his pledge that “no deal is better than a bad deal.” This deal is bad, Israel says because it leaves Iran wth all the stocks it has already built up of 20-percent enriched uranium and the ability to continue the production of low 5-percent grade unrestricted.
debkafile’s sources report that the Palestinian issue did not come up in either of the two conversations Kerry held with Netanyahu Wednesday. Both were dominated by the Iranian row and ended with differences as wide as ever.
Israel accused Washington of capitulating to the plan Moscow and Tehran handed in to President Barack Obama last week. That plan, according to our sources, entails suspending the work of 10,000 centrifuges on all grades of enrichment (3, 5 and 20 percent). However, Iran has a total of 19,000 machines of which only 9,000 are active anyway. Therefore, the offer to freeze 10,000 already idle centrifuges was a subterfuge. It is nonetheless being presented by the Russians – and now by the Americans, too – as a major Iranian concession.
The truth is that Iran is being allowed to keep its full stock of centrifuges intact, operational and available for use at any time.
This means that if Tehran decides tomorrow to renege on its deal with Washington and the world powers – after its approval in Geneva – it will retain the capacity to restart centrifuge operations in full and within 10 days accumulate enough weapons-grade material to build several nuclear bombs or warheads.
By the time Washington or the nuclear watchdog catch on, it will be too late: Iran will have The Bomb.
Last week, Moscow claimed that Iran had agreed to “restrain the weaponization processes.” This admission alone belied Tehran’s insistence that its entire nuclear program was peaceful and exposed as false Moscow’s denials of proofs that Iran was engaged in developing nuclear arms.
According to our sources, the “restraint” on offer refers only to the process of miniaturizing a nuclear bomb for use in a missile warhead or dropped from an airplane.
In sum, therefore, the US president has agreed in essence to “photograph” Iran’s nuclear program and freeze it as it stands now. Tehran would place nuclear development in suspension without, however, relinquishing a single component of its program.
The new American proposal broke surface Wednesday, as the seven delegations gathered in Geneva for the morrow’s session.A nameless US spokesman told reporters that America was now proposing that Iran, as a first step, stop its nuclear program advancing any further and start rolling parts of it back. In return, Washington offered “very limited, temporary, reversible sanctions relief.”
The spokesman said: “This phase must involve levels of Iran’s uranium enrichment, its stockpiles of the material as well as international monitoring.”
Israel is not buying this plan.
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November 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM
McClatchy: U.S., Iran hope to reach deal by Friday on nuclear program
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/06/207747/us-iran-hope-to-reach-deal-by.html
“… At the heart of the proposal is the demand that Iran halt the expansion of its ability to enrich uranium, presumably by not buying new centrifuges, the equipment used in the enrichment process. That’s a change from previous demands that Iran stop enriching uranium past a certain purity…”
November 7, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Good day Joseph and friends, recently I did some search on the Net and ended up with watching vids of Kent Hovind and Jesse Ventura – in both cases about New World Order/One World Government.These 2 men seem trustworthy to me and therefore I was shocked – shocked about whats going on in the USA ( and probably elsewhere too ).Looking at what I knew so far, their reports fit into the greater picture. Already before watching these vids I thought that the USA under the present government has become a police state which is one step before martial law….! These vids confirmed my impression – its pure horror – I recommend you to check for yourself what these 2 men have to say about New World Order / One World Government !!!!
My hope is that these New World Order People making their plans without thinking of the God of Israel and therefore they will totally fail !
I can imagine that these New World Order People would be happy if Israel and Iran would destroy each other thereby eliminating 2 ”troublemakers”……They couldnt be more wrong ! Its them who will finally be defeated ! The God of Israel will finish them off ! Am Israel Chai !
November 7, 2013 at 2:40 PM
OK, did anyone really not see this coming? And what will Netanyahu do? Nothing! The weight of the world is now on his chest. Once this little agreement with Iran is in place, Israel will be strong armed into painful concessions for a peace deal with the Palestinians. A peace deal Israel will find most distateful.
Netanyahu, the master manipulator has been schooled, and is now
twisted like a pretzel with nowhere to turn!
November 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM
John Netanyahu only fault is that he trusted Obama . I do not think any of us would want his job !
November 7, 2013 at 3:56 PM
There was not much trust between either of them.
Netanyahu made two major mistakes.
1. Not dealing with this issue years ago.
2. Thinking the levers he was able to pull
in the past would still work today.
For example, the US is throwing both Israel
and Sudia Arabia under the bus. Why,the US
no longer needs Middle East Oil.
This is the reason the levers
Israel pulled in the past to get what it
wanted no longer work.
The 21st Century will look nothing
like the 20th. Those who do not recognize
this will get crushed.
November 7, 2013 at 4:51 PM
John good points ! Netanyahu should have acted before the elections of 2012 Obama would have no choice but to support Israel because our military bases would have been under attack .and he would have probably lost the election too for the liberals would have voted against him for getting us into a war . then we would have a president who will make sure that Iran does not get the bomb .
November 7, 2013 at 5:02 PM
hear, hear….
November 7, 2013 at 4:07 PM
Well, mmmm , what can i say more than i already did.
November 7, 2013 at 4:57 PM
John…
You will learn. Painfully… Like I did.
Making predictions about Israel/Iran is a loser’s game.
None of us know all the parameters, in particular intelligence, armaments and ongoing secret operations.
You might actually end up right, but not for the reasons you thought. A stopped clock is right twice a day, after all.
Please understand. To the people outside the decision makers who know the MOST on the subject, your pronouncements sound like the callow drivel of a 16 year old.
Always 100% certain, often completely wrong…
You’ll sound much better if you say this “could” happen” rather than “this will happen.”
A touch of wisdom that I hope rings true…
November 7, 2013 at 9:42 PM
JW,
I think most people fall into 2 categories when trying to predict Israel / Iran war.
Either they don’t think it will ever happen (or continuously predict not in the next 6 months or year or whatever)
Or they keep thinking it will happen soon (like in the next few months).
I fall in the latter category. i will be shocked once again if Israel doesn’t do it before the end of 2013.
But we’ll see. I do think the longer Israel waits the more risk that Iran could strike first which would be the worst case scenario.
November 8, 2013 at 4:10 AM
I fall in the third category. I have absolutely no idea what will happen.
November 7, 2013 at 10:17 PM
J W This issue of Iran nuclear program has been going on now for a long time.I started read about this in 2006, what will ever become of it ? JW you are going to need a long vacation when this is resolved .but until that time keep the faith and keep up the good work thanks .
November 7, 2013 at 10:20 PM
PS.most americans don”t even know about this issue .or don”t care.
November 7, 2013 at 11:06 PM
I don’t know about that. I think more Americans care about foreign policy that the leftist media wants you to believe.
Iran is the #1 threat to America. And while 9/11 was 12 years ago it still serves as a constant reminder of the dangers we face to many of us.
I’ll never understand the mindset of Americans who voted for the current occupant of the WH not once but twice. Those folks either don’t give a s*** about America’s standing in the world and our security, or they think we’re the bad guys.
November 8, 2013 at 1:03 AM
Mark you forgot one option why they voted for Obama . they are too stupid .
November 7, 2013 at 5:04 PM
“callow drivel of a 16 year old.”
Sorry Joe, I call em like I see em!