U.S. Foreign Policy
“When you look at the crises in the Middle East, you can see Iran’s fingerprints everywhere,” says Bahrain’s undersecretary for international relations during his visit to Jerusalem.
Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says that the 2018 Mossad seizure of nuclear documents from Tehran caused the former U.S. president to withdraw from the JCPOA.
“From Ankara’s side, while strategic imperatives have long been pushing Turkey to mend its ties with Israel, bashing Israel has become instrumental in mobilizing the constituency at the domestic level,” said Selin Nasi.
The new radars are designed to enable Germany to modernize its airspace surveillance and create ballistic-missile defense capabilities,
King Abdullah noted that “Iranian ballistic technology has improved dramatically. We have seen that against American bases in Iraq.”
Tehran is “exacerbating” the nuclear situation and must “urgently” resume negotiations in Vienna, says the French Foreign Ministry.
The U.S. State Department confirmed the report, saying that the Iranians had “requested more time to deal with their presidential transition.”
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and King Abdullah reportedly met in secret last week in Amman, prior to the Jordanian monarch’s scheduled visit the White House on July 19.
“The United States knows that the Iranian government cares first and foremost about staying in power. If that means sacrificing its non-Iranian allies—Lebanese, Iraqi, Syrian and Yemenite Shi’ites—so be it,” said former U.S. Department of Defense official Harold Rhode.
Also in attendance was a delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), making his first trip to Israel in his current position.
“Iran has no credible civilian need for uranium metal R&D and production,” said the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom in response to a new IAEA report.
The purpose was to derail the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna, says Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei.
