‘Israel will seek to discredit Obama on Iran’
‘Israel will seek to discredit Obama on Iran’ | The Times of Israel.
( Sabotage? Revealing the truth about what Iran is doing is sabotage? – JW )
Netanyahu instructs Mossad, military intelligence to dig up evidence Tehran is flouting its nascent nuclear deal, report says
December 1, 2013, 6:33 am
A satellite image of Iran’s Fordo uranium enrichment facility (photo credit: AP/DigitalGlobe)
In a direct effort to sabotage US President Barack Obama’s efforts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the heads of Israel’s intelligence community to look for proof that Iran has violated an interim deal signed with the international community last week over its nuclear program, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.
Mossad, as well as the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate, were told to dig up evidence of Iranian intransigence ahead of Obama’s push to pass the deal in Congress, the Sunday Times reported, citing Israeli defense sources.
“Everyone has his own view regarding the Geneva agreement,” an Israeli intelligence source was quoted as saying. “But it is clear that if a smoking gun is produced, it will tumble like a house of cards.”
Representatives of Iran and the P5+1 nations are to meet in Geneva this week to discuss unresolved aspects of the agreement, which was sealed early last Sunday in the Swiss city after a weekend of intensive negotiations.
A solid majority of Americans supports the deal, according to a recent Reuters poll.
Israeli officials at the weekend denounced Obama for presiding over the negotiations, which they said granted the Islamic Republic the right to enrich uranium and was rapidly eroding the sanctions regime against Tehran.
That elaborate wall of sanctions, painstakingly constructed over years, is already crumbling and “will collapse within months,” the unnamed officials were quoted as saying by Israel’s Channel 2.
Publicly, Netanyahu has slammed the Geneva deal as a “historic mistake,” said Israel is not bound by it, and vowed to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons drive alone if necessary.
In a phone conversation with Obama last Sunday, Netanyahu agreed to send a team led by his national security adviser to Washington to try to impact world powers’ upcoming efforts to reach a permanent accord to thwart Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons drive.
Privately, the unnamed officials were quoted as indicating, Jerusalem is feeling a bitter, dismayed and helpless sense of “we told you so.”
Claiming that officials and businesspeople from around the world — notably including China, Turkey, France, Russia and India — are already converging on Iran, ready to resume large-scale oil, banking and all manner of other business dealings as sanctions are eased in the wake the Geneva deal, the officials reportedly said that Israel knew the sanctions pressure would collapse, “but even we didn’t imagine it would happen this fast.”
President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while walking from the Oval Office to the South Lawn Drive of the White House, after their meeting May 20, 2011 in Washington, DC (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/Flash90)
If Israel does produce evidence that Iran is flouting its deal with the world powers, the agreement could prove a tough sell for Obama in Congress.
The Israeli search for evidence of Iranian subterfuge would focus on three aspects of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program — secret enrichment sites such as Fordo, which the Iranians hid under a mountain in the holy city of Qom; ballistic missile production; and attempts to design and construct a bomb — the Sunday Times report said, citing unnamed Israeli defense sources.
The State Department has acknowledged that Iran is currently enjoying a “window” of time before the six-month interim deal takes effect, during which it is not bound to take any credible steps toward disabling its ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The terms of the deal, which are still being worked out, will only kick in come January.
According to a source in the Obama administration quoted by The New York Times Saturday, “If there’s any evidence of some secret nuclear site the Iranians forgot to [mention], this is over.”
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WarSclerotic 
December 1, 2013 at 9:02 AM
“PM Binyamin Netanyahu has instructed heads of the Israeli intelligence community to……”
Oh yes I”m sure that Bibi reports all of his important instructions to the Mosad directly to the BBC……
How stupid do these reporters think we are?
December 1, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Might be a message to Obomba….
“You asked me to quiet my criticism? OK. We won’t criticize, we’ll PROVE the deal is really IRANSCAM.”
December 1, 2013 at 11:24 AM
JW, does your contact form work now?
And what do you think about this:
IRNA: Obama waiting to visit Iran: Kuwaiti paper
http://www.irna.ir/en/News/80929159/Politic/Obama_waiting_to_visit_Iran__Kuwaiti_paper
December 1, 2013 at 11:56 AM
I posted an answer to your argument on Caroline Glick’s article “Obama is supplying Israel with more weapons systems than any other previous president” but it seems that the new dialog is not working , so I repeat it here:
Congress should impeach Obama on Iran or be complicit in facilitating the next Holocaust
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/congress-should-impeach-obama-on-iran.html
December 1, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Could very well be, but you know what we say in Yiddish –
Se helft azoi vi a toit in bankes.
Until somebody starts talkin Persian around here,
not much is gonna change for the better.
December 1, 2013 at 5:01 PM
What’s the point of this?
A few days ago Iran’s FM openly stated they will continue building Arak in clear violation of the agreement.
I’m sorry, but Israel should’ve struck Iran several years ago. Further delay could well lead to disaster!
December 1, 2013 at 5:33 PM
“I’m sorry, but Israel should’ve struck Iran several years ago. Further delay could well lead to disaster!”
I agree Mark, Israeli leadership was trying to maneuver others to do what needed to be done, and now when the die is cast they realize the levers they’ve pulled in the past no longer work.
The Rubicon has been crossed.
December 1, 2013 at 5:46 PM
I’m afraid Obama reeled Netanyahu in like a fish. Obama knew Netanyahu wanted America to take care of business and lead him on that America would. Then when Obama was ready, he sprung the trap and Netanyahu got caught. If Netanyahu was less interested in coy maneuvers and took the horse by the reigns.
But alas he did not, and now……… Only future historians know how this will turn out.
December 1, 2013 at 5:58 PM
John…
Assuming you are right, what a pro con-job Obomba pulled in his trip to Israel.
He conned me! At least into considering that he wasn’t anti-Israel.
The evil is closing on all sides. Something has to happen to change the momentum.
I pray Israel’s leaders are not too insulated in their power to realize this.
I’m all for Netanyahu meeting with this apparently revolutionary, decent Pope. Is now the time to be doing it? Can the Pope help us against Iran?
It seems clear now that we are entirely alone in a world of evil and money seeking enablers of evil. It’s time for us to start acting as if we understand that grim reality.
Before it’s too goddamned late….
December 1, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Joe, I’m afraid as time moves on and the world is distracted by other events, Israel will be left stranded in a sea of hostility. Left to deal with its enemies on its own…
December 1, 2013 at 6:13 PM
That has already happened.
What I’m worried about is whether our gov understands it.
December 1, 2013 at 5:56 PM
Now they’re bragging about building another new reactor in Busheir.
Yes it’s gone to their heads. Persians obviously can’t hold their “drink”.
I’ve a feeling somebody’s gonna get sick of this and shut them up soon.
Could be ‘boma even, if they make too much of joke of ‘im.
Mooch don like people laughin at her dude.
December 1, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Operating on the basis of limited perspective
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/operating-on-basis-of-limited.html
December 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Mladen…
Please post a comment with 4 links and your email so I can contact you.
Only I can read it so there’s no danger it will get out.
Cheers!
Joe
December 1, 2013 at 9:30 PM
First of all it is ridiculous to think that the instruction for the Mossad end at the desk of the Sunday Times.
“If Israel does produce evidence that Iran is flouting its deal with the world powers, the agreement could prove a tough sell for Obama in Congress.”
It’s hard to prove that Iran is flouting the deal when we don’t even know what’s in the deal or when the deal comes into effect.
These efforts to expose the Iranian program should have started long ago to prevent a deal which was very easy to predict to be a bad deal.
I fear that at this point in time this deal (or whatever one calls it) is very unlikely to be stopped.
It was decided long ago that the US will come to an appeasement deal with Iran (aka rapprochement).
I remember some folks saying that the Russians are not interested in nukes floating around Europe.
Well, it seems the Russians don’t care (as I have argued)
But still such efforts by the Mossad can serve a useful purpose even if they don’t stop the deal: To give legitimacy to an unavoidable Israeli strike.
Israel will be condemned no matter what.
But at least such exposures would give even more moral justification for the inevitable strike.