The US vice-president Joe Biden in a keynote address on Saturday assured a group of paranoid Jews at the Brookings Institute‘s Saban Forum 2014 that he sees “less than even shot” of a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but that it was still worth continue playing the charade.
He rejected pro-Israel law-makers’ demand for new ‘crippling sanctions’ against Iranian people over the country’s nuclear program because “this is not time to risk a breakdown when we still have chance to force Tehran to stop its nuclear ambitions“.
Joe Biden claimed that the sanctions imposed by the US (since 1980s) and its allies have forced Tehran to seek dialogue with the so-called P5+1 world powers.
“It’s frozen the program, it’s given us a shot for a peaceful solution,” he said. “I tell you, I think it’s a less than even shot but it’s a shot, nonetheless.”
Biden admitted that Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu may have difference over details how to neutralize Iran’s nuclear assets – but the desired end results are the same.
“We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon – period,” he said. “End of discussion. Not on our watch.”
The other speakers at December 5-7 event included Benjamin Netanyahu (via satellite), John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jewish Lobby’s 2016 presidential candidate, Isaac Herzog, Israeli chair of Israel’s Labor Party and leader of the opposition, Naftali Bennett, Israeli minister of economy; minister of religious services, Jerusalem and diaspora affairs; chairman, Jewish Home Party, and Strobe Talbot, president Brookings Institute – and of course US-Israeli billionaire Haim Saban, chairman of the Saban Forum.
Does Iran really intends to compete with nuclear Israel? Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei has refuted the allegation on several occasions. Netanyahu had been claiming “Iran will poses a nuclear bomb next year” since the 1990s. International nuclear watchdog IAEA still has failed to prove Netanyahu’s allegations. It says that Iran has met all NPT requirements.
Ironically, its is the existing declared nuclear powers – the US, Russia, China, France, Britain – which are in violation of 1970 NPT. The pact denied nuclear weapons to other nations provided that the signatories rapidly eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Four decades later, none have complied with the treaty, while Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea have all secretly built nuclear arsenals.
Judging by the past record, it’s Israel which poses an ‘existential threat’ to Iran and not the other way around. Islamic Republic has not started a war under Islamic regime since 1979. Israel has launched multiple wars with its neighbors, as well as, launching smaller attacks and military violation of Syrian, Iranian and Lebanese air space. Terrorism. Well it were five Iranian nuclear scientists who became targets of Israeli Mossad – but Iranian or Hizbullah did not assassinate a single Israel nuclear scientist.
Charley Reese (1937-2013), American journalist and former editor Orlando Sentinel, published a Middle East Pop Quiz on February 8, 1998, which is 101% good even today.
He rejected pro-Israel law-makers’ demand for new ‘crippling sanctions’ against Iranian people over the country’s nuclear program because “this is not time to risk a breakdown when we still have chance to force Tehran to stop its nuclear ambitions“.
Joe Biden claimed that the sanctions imposed by the US (since 1980s) and its allies have forced Tehran to seek dialogue with the so-called P5+1 world powers.
“It’s frozen the program, it’s given us a shot for a peaceful solution,” he said. “I tell you, I think it’s a less than even shot but it’s a shot, nonetheless.”
Biden admitted that Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu may have difference over details how to neutralize Iran’s nuclear assets – but the desired end results are the same.
“We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon – period,” he said. “End of discussion. Not on our watch.”
The other speakers at December 5-7 event included Benjamin Netanyahu (via satellite), John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jewish Lobby’s 2016 presidential candidate, Isaac Herzog, Israeli chair of Israel’s Labor Party and leader of the opposition, Naftali Bennett, Israeli minister of economy; minister of religious services, Jerusalem and diaspora affairs; chairman, Jewish Home Party, and Strobe Talbot, president Brookings Institute – and of course US-Israeli billionaire Haim Saban, chairman of the Saban Forum.
Does Iran really intends to compete with nuclear Israel? Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei has refuted the allegation on several occasions. Netanyahu had been claiming “Iran will poses a nuclear bomb next year” since the 1990s. International nuclear watchdog IAEA still has failed to prove Netanyahu’s allegations. It says that Iran has met all NPT requirements.
Ironically, its is the existing declared nuclear powers – the US, Russia, China, France, Britain – which are in violation of 1970 NPT. The pact denied nuclear weapons to other nations provided that the signatories rapidly eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Four decades later, none have complied with the treaty, while Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea have all secretly built nuclear arsenals.
Judging by the past record, it’s Israel which poses an ‘existential threat’ to Iran and not the other way around. Islamic Republic has not started a war under Islamic regime since 1979. Israel has launched multiple wars with its neighbors, as well as, launching smaller attacks and military violation of Syrian, Iranian and Lebanese air space. Terrorism. Well it were five Iranian nuclear scientists who became targets of Israeli Mossad – but Iranian or Hizbullah did not assassinate a single Israel nuclear scientist.
Charley Reese (1937-2013), American journalist and former editor Orlando Sentinel, published a Middle East Pop Quiz on February 8, 1998, which is 101% good even today.
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