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Iran nuclear programme deal in danger of unravelling" (my emphasis in red):
"The diplomatic progress that brought six foreign ministers
tantalisingly close to a historic agreement on the Iranian nuclear
programme is in danger of unravelling before negotiators meet again this
month, officials and analysts warned on Sunday.
In a bid to contain the danger, the lead US negotiator, Wendy Sherman, flew straight from the talks in Geneva to Israel to reassure Binyamin Netanyahu's government that the intended deal would not harm his country's national interests.
The
hastily arranged trip represented an acknowledgement of Netanyahu's
power to block a deal through his influence in the US Congress and in
Europe. Egged on by the Israelis, the US Senate is poised to pass new
sanctions that threaten to derail the talks before they get to their
planned next round in 10 days' time.
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, said on Sunday that America was sufficiently sceptical of Iran's willingness to dismantle its nuclear programme and would keep sanctions in place as talks continue.
"We
are not blind and I don't think we're stupid. We have a pretty strong
sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of
our country and of the globe," Kerry said on NBC's Meet the Press.
More
immediately, Netanyahu demonstrated over the weekend that he could sway
the Geneva talks from the inside through his relationship with Paris.
It has emerged that after a call from Barack Obama on Friday evening
asking him not to oppose the planned Geneva deal, Netanyahu did the
opposite. He called British prime minister, David Cameron, Russian
president Vladimir Putin, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French
president François Hollande, asking them to block it.
Hollande,
whose government shared some of Israel's concerns, agreed. It was
French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear
accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of
Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit."
and:
"The French roadblock took Washington by surprise. There had been an
initial day of discussions in Geneva on Thursday involving the Iranian
foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the EU foreign policy chief,
Lady Ashton, and senior diplomats from the US, the UK, France, Germany,
Russia and China, the six-nation group known as the P5+1 that has led
the nuclear negotiations since 2006.
There had been an
understanding that if the talks looked close to agreement, Kerry, who
was in the Middle East last week, would come to Geneva to push them over
the finishing line. But on Thursday night the Iranians forced his hand.
Zarif announced that work on drafting an agreement would start the next
morning and officials told the press Kerry would fly in the same day –
putting the US secretary of state in a bind. If he stayed away and the
talks failed, he would be blamed. He was weighing the possibility of
personal intervention anyway, officials in Geneva said, but would have
preferred to have chosen the timing and made the announcement himself.
Kerry
had an uncomfortable meeting with Netanyahu at Ben Gurion airport on
Friday morning in which the Israeli prime minister lectured him on the
dangers of deal with Iran which loosened sanctions without halting the
nuclear project. The atmosphere was so sour, the Americans opted out of a
joint press appearance.
Kerry took off for Geneva, but before he
landed the draft agreement was under public attack from another, more
unexpected quarter. The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, told a
French radio station that Paris would not accept a jeu des dupes – a fools' game, casting doubt on when a deal could be concluded.
He broke an agreement not to discuss the content of the negotiations in public . . . "
It is time for all moral and decent people to start a 100% boycott of all things french, to be ended only when a full Iran peace deal is in place with all sanctions lifted. Needless to say, the current Jewslaves in the French government have permanently denied their country the benefits of future contracts with Iran. More importantly, they have missed out on a crucial pivot in world history that even the American have managed to figure out. I like France, and I'm sorry to say we are going to see a continued deterioration and degradation in this once great country.