President Joe Biden is close to entering a new nuclear deal with Iran. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell declared on Wednesday could reach an agreement in a few days.
The Biden administration also echoed the EU foreign policy chief’s statement, saying it was getting closer to striking the deal. White House National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby, said, “we are closer now than we were even just a couple of weeks ago because Iran made a decision to make some concessions.”
“The Biden administration is eager to restore the deal trashed by former president Donald Trump,” the TV channel France24 noted.
The French broadcaster added:
“I am hoping that in the coming days we are not going to lose this momentum and we can close the deal,” top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said after an informal meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers in Prague.”It’s clear that there is a common ground, that we have an agreement that takes into account, I think, everyone’s concerns,” he said.
Since November 2021, the Biden White House negotiators have participated in EU-sponsored talks to restore the Iran nuclear deal. The new agreement seeks to replace the Obama-era nuclear deal. In 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration walked away from the 2015 deal, placing strict sanctions on the terror-sponsoring regime.
Much like the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by then-Secretary of State John Kerry, the new pact will do little to stop Iran from going nuclear and give billions of dollars to the regime. “On the table right now is a bad deal. It would give Iran $100 billion a year,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned Wednesday.
Former Israeli military and security officials have written a letter to President Biden asking him to reject the proposed nuclear deal. Pointing to the deal’s flaws, they state that the “agreement creates a clear legal pathway for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons by 2031.”
The Israeli TV network i24News reported the content of their letter:
Dozens of former senior Israeli defense officials sent a letter to US President Joe Biden urging him to not sign a revived nuclear deal with Iran.”Despite your administration’s repeated declared commitment to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, this agreement creates a clear legal pathway for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons by 2031, while denying the signatories of any tools to prevent that eventuality,” the letter to Biden reads.It was signed by 32 former Israeli generals on behalf of the 5,000 members of the IDSF.”The deal will unleash a regional nuclear arms race, in which states like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states will seek to either develop or acquire nuclear weapons to mitigate the Iranian threat,” the letter continues.
The letter petitioning the U.S. president comes after a similar warning by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He cautioned the Biden-Mullah deal would be Tehran’s “golden paved highway” to a nuclear bomb last Wednesday. He called the proposed agreement a “madness” and “the height of folly.”
The economic incentives offered by the new nuclear deal will be a massive boost for Iran’s global terrorist activities, Mossad Chief Dedi Barnea warned last week.
He said “that the deal will infuse Iran’s purse with billions of dollars that will be diverted to fund terrorist groups including the Lebanon based Hezbollah, the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, as well as other proxies and will pose a challenge for both the U.S. and Israel,” the Israeli news website Ynet News reported paraphrasing Israel’s intelligence chief.
It is worth noting that the U.S. classifies Iran as the biggest state-sponsor of terrorism.
While the Biden-Mullah deal looks like a real possibility, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is enhancing its capabilities to launch an air strike against Iran’s fortified and underground nuclear weapons sites.
Israel is set to buy U.S.-made refueling tankers that will extend the reach of its fighter jets, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The IDF’s procurement of the four new Boeing tankers “will help it attack Iran’s nuclear sites,” the newspaper added.
Reporting the details of the latest Israeli military acquisition, The JPost wrote:
In seeking to further its reach as a nuclear deal between Iran and the United States looks more likely to be signed, the Israel Air Force has signed a contract with Boeing to purchase four multi-mission KC-46 refueling tankers in a deal valued at $927.5 million.The four new planes that will begin to arrive in 2025 are set to replace the IAF’s aging fleet of Re’em Boeing 707 tankers, aircraft that have been flying in various guises for well over half a century. (…)IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi has made clear that he views a rekindling of the 2015 nuclear deal as dangerous and has said publicly that he has asked for fresh operational plans to be prepared to strike Iran in order to stop its nuclear program, if necessary.
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