“Iran will not be required to destroy its advanced centrifuges under the revived agreement.”
As President Joe Biden wraps up nuclear negotiations with Teran, Israel is gearing up for a “spectacularly bad” Iran deal, the Israeli media reported. The proposed Biden deal, which is expected to be similar to the 2015 Obama-Kerry nuclear agreement, may allow Iran to keep its nuclear infrastructure, and prevent Israel from striking Iranian nuclear facilities, the draft of the agreement suggests.
According to Israeli media reports, under the new deal Iran may be allowed to retain its nuclear infrastructure — including advance centrifuges to enrich uranium and other facilities tied to its nuclear weapons program.
The proposed deal backed by the Biden administration could also tie Israel’s hands when it comes to striking Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Israel would plainly not be able to target Iranian enrichment facilities if and when a revived deal was signed,” The Times of Israel reported citing country’s Channel 13 TV broadcaster.
The Times of Israel summed up the Israeli reaction to the revived Iran nuclear deal:
Quoting an unnamed Israeli security official, Channel 13 news reported that while Israel considered the original deal to have been bad, the revived accord taking shape is “spectacularly bad,” as it does not factor in the progress Iran has made since.
Referring to a leaked draft of the imminent accord, the source said Iran will not be required to destroy its advanced centrifuges under the revived agreement. Tehran will have to reduce its uranium enrichment levels, but it has already developed the capability to enrich at high levels. It will also be required to cease producing uranium metal, a crucial component of the bomb-making process. However, the source noted that Iran now has the knowledge to be able to manufacture such materials in the future.
“In essence, it is an agreement that leaves Iran as a nuclear threshold state,” the network said, citing the security source.
Channel 13’s report asserted that Israel would plainly not be able to target Iranian enrichment facilities if and when a revived deal was signed. A key question, though, said its military analyst Alon Ben-David, was whether Israel would have a free hand, as far as the Americans are concerned, to take actions to thwart Iranian progress on weaponization and missile delivery systems for a bomb — areas not covered by the deal.
According to Channel 13, furthermore, the Biden administration has told Israel that Trump enabled Iran to become a “nuclear threshold state” in terms of uranium production and that a failure to revive the old agreement — as Jerusalem is hoping — would leave Tehran weeks away from accumulating enough nuclear material needed for a bomb, rather than months away from the bomb under the terms of the deal. (Emphasis mine)
The assertion that President Biden’s deal could permit Iran to retain its weapons program-linked nuclear facilities was also reported by Politico. Middle East scholar, Ray Takeyh, noted in his opinion piece on Friday:
If the rumors coming out of Vienna are correct, the Biden administration is close to an agreement on a new nuclear deal with Iran that will have many of the same flaws as the old nuclear deal. The original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action allowed Iran to maintain its nuclear infrastructure, from advanced centrifuges to a robust research and development plan. Now, though the fate of a follow-on deal remains uncertain, it seems diplomats in Vienna are looking to ink an agreement with the same basic problem. (Emphasis mine)
It is deceptive of the Biden White House, which eased a series of sanctions on Iran and watched the Mullah regime advance its nuclear weapons program, to place the blame on former President Donald Trump for its failure to rollback the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Earlier this month, the Biden White House lifted significant sanctions of Iran’s ‘civilian’ nuclear program, reversing a Trump administration’s decision. Biden’s waiver paved the way for Russian, Chinese and European companies to build up Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, news reports disclosed.
Under Biden’s watch, Iran has come closer to acquiring a nuclear bomb. Iran has “started enriching uranium up to 60% purity — a short technical step from the 90% needed to make an atomic bomb, and spinning far more advanced centrifuges than those permitted under the deal,” The Associated Press reported Friday.
A nuclear Iran poses an existential threat to Israel. The Mullah regime has repeatedly threatened Israel with destruction. In recent month, Iran has tested several of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, simulating targets in Israel. The Iranian military spokesman renewed regime’s threat to ‘annihilate’ the Jewish State, and a state-affiliated newspaper published a list of possible missile targets in the country .
Israel’s i24News : Iran says nuclear agreement ‘closer than ever’
Diane Harvey says
“Channel 13’s report asserted that Israel would plainly not be able to target Iranian enrichment facilities if and when a revived deal was signed.”
How is Israel bound by this agreement when it is not a party to it?
mortimer says
Israel is not bound by the insanity of the Dems.
Roland says
Israel is expected to risk all and do the dirty work. And oddly enough, the US was not in the same room with Iran when they negotiated neo-JCPOA, supposedly because the US is no longer party to JCPOA. Who invented this diplomatic minuet?
mortimer says
Only one purpose is served by a large number of centrifuges … the accumulation of weapons-grade material … whether high-grade uranium or plutonium.
They are MAD to negotiate with the mullahocracy or trust a word they say about anything.
Muslims believe any promise made to a dirty KAFIR may be broken.
Keys says
“Muslims believe any promise made to a dirty KAFIR may be broken.”
For certain ! Indeed this has already happened. During the Reagan Administration Pakistani President Zia insisted that his country was NOT striving to make a nuclear bomb.
Zia through US ambassador Vernon Walters wrote in his reply to Reagan, “I can assure you that we neither possess nor have transmitted any designs or specifications of nuclear weapons components to anyone.” When it became clear that Pakistan had “the Bomb” the Reagan Administration confronted Zia.
https://archive.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/01/26/zia-assured-reagan-pakistan-would-not-build-nuclear-bomb-cia-documents-reveal/
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/new-documents-spotlight-reagan-era-tensions-over-pakistani-nuclear-program
https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/print/reagan-admin-knowingly-ignored-zias-lies-on-nweapons-report/
Frank Anderson says
Sad but true FACT, the ownership of the Sudetenland was negotiated between France, UK, Germany and Italy. Czechoslovakia was not permitted to have a representative in the room, much less a voice to speak. But it was “bound” by the treachery and incompetence of those present. “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.” Jorge Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). Israel is in no better position today than Czechoslovakia then.
gravenimage says
Grimlly true, Frank. And we all know how well that “peace in our time” worked out.
Frank Anderson says
GI, “You shall know the truth; and the truth shall set you free.” “But first it will make you miserable.” Thomas Jefferson. Suggested conclusion: “Misery is required to prompt action.”
gravenimage says
Too often true, Frank.
By the way, I found your latest post re Jews in the military during WWII on the “Typical Leftist: Justin Trudeau Accuses Jewish Descendant Opponents of Standing with Nazis” thread and replied to it. Sorry I did not find it sooner.
somehistory says
Perhaps Israel is expected by the fools to honor this evil “agreement,” but they shouldn’t have to since they are not signing it.
Ezekiel wrote about these times, and in chapters 37-39, he goes into detail about the nations conspiring and advancing against Israel to destroy her. iran…called by its then name of “Persia” is said to be leading the charge. Also, the ancient name for russia.is there.
Wellington says
Biden is oozing weakness to the world at large. He remains a disaster and will continue to be a disaster.
I also think that the election was stolen from Trump and which is why I will never call the dismal Biden
“President.”
America is sinking. For that matter, the world is. And democracy, real democracy, is on the ropes. Just look at Canada for example.
For the time being, Israel is on its own but then Israel knows this.
Walter Sieruk says
Since ,as this article reveals about the horrible fool “Joe Biden wraps up nuclear negotiations with Teran, Israel is gearing up for a ‘spectacularly bad’ Iran deal,..”
The government authorities of the State of Israel are wise if they to gear up their military power to prepare a vicious and hostile attempted missile strike Islamic Iran against that Jewish nation.
Even a first strike by the Israeli air force on nuclear weapons program,sites is appropriate because the authorities of the government well understand the malice -filled violent and aggressive intentions of those in power in that “mullah regime” of Iran.
In other words ,a first strike at such site is important and necessary for the State of Israel in self defense.
As the former US President ,James Monroe had ,rightly , declared “The right to self-defence never ceases. it is among the most sacred and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Walter Sieruk says
Any so called “deal” that Joe Biden agrees to with Iran would be “Spectacularly Bad” because Biden is a spectacularly awful feeble- minded old fool.
gravenimage says
Report: Israel Prepares For Biden’s ‘Spectacularly Bad’ Iran Deal Next Week
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I hope Israel just quietly ignores this crap.
Frank Anderson says
Friend mortimer, we agree about the complete insanity and deception, both self and fraudulent, when kafirs negotiate with believers. Such negotiations are conducted by people who want to put on a show instead of either confronting the client with the absurdity of talking or who are just plain liars. Self-deception is not illegal. Fraud upon another person is.
I ask you to check on one detail where I believe you are in error. Creating bomb grade plutonium does not require any centrifuges. It is done by exposing Uranium 238 to neutrons in a reactor. I have been told by another commenter that leaving the uranium in the reactor too long generates higher mass isotopes, 240 and 241, which cause problems with using the 239 in bombs. I don’t know enough to agree or disagree with that proposition.
Before centrifuges, the US used 3 methods to make bomb material, mass spectrograph uranium isotope separation, gas diffusion, and Plutonium manufacture in Hanford Washington and Barnwell South Carolina. According to my reading, centrifuges are 10 times more energy efficient than gas diffusion, and 100 times more efficient than mass spectrographs.
OLD GUY says
It seems like our current Administration under Biden, is allowing all the nut jobs around the world to step up their threats to the free world. Why the USA is putting the heat on Israel who we should be standing tall with makes no sense at all. Iran will lie, cheat and steal to get what it wants, world power recognition. Seems like we need to prosecute our politicians who are accepting CASH contributions from foreign individuals and countries. That money is slanting their decisions towards foreign benefits rather than standing up for America and what is good for our citizens. These multi-national corporations contribute to our political leaders to get what they want, with nothing but their profit motivating them.
Adm. M says
On reflection, England was most fortunate to have Winston Churchill to steer his people out of the darkness into the light, with the support of King George VI. America is stuck re-cycling failures, with Biden and his Marxist staff picking up from from where Obama and his Kinder Korps left off.
The extreme naïveté and ignorance of Biden’s unworldly advisors causes one to reflect upon how the Wehrmacht felt so betrayed by civilian leadership for its defeat in WWI. However, in this case, we’re stuck with a pathetic, inexperienced civilian leadership compounded by an equally inexperienced military.
With Ukraine eliminated, how soon for Taiwan. With America so eager to create a nuclear Iran, when does ol’ Persia arise to claim its place in the Middle East; when does North Korea surround the ports to throttle South Korea? Just as history evidenced (e.g., Italy attacking France) the evil forces are aligning over the inescapable weakness of Biden; sadly, how America meekly accepts this perversion to our proud history.
Semper Fi and good night Chesty, wherever you are tonight…