U.S. Foreign Policy
“This game is costing us. This process of just holding and holding and holding makes no sense whatsoever,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
“Putin must stop or Putin must pay,” the former U.S. vice president tells Israeli newspaper.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman also said that the country could decrease investments in the United States.
The new agreement taking shape will pave the way for Iran to become a nuclear threshold state, says former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It is a horrible deal. We should oppose it with every fiber of our being.”
The former prime minister calls for Jerusalem to sound the alarm on the agreement emerging in Vienna.
“Israel will always retain its freedom of action to defend itself,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, adding that Israel is “building unprecedented military capabilities. We have to be by far the strongest country in the region.”
If negotiators don’t come to an agreement, America’s European allies will have seen that there was an effort to get Iran back in compliance with the JCPOA and the international order, that Iran did not comply, and that sanctions must be implemented.
“The relationship between Qatar and the United States is bizarre, and makes no strategic sense,” said Yigal Carmon, founder and president of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“The mood in Congress indicates concern over the direction of these negotiations. Endless discussions only benefit Iran’s nuclear program, and there are calls for a more coercive approach to the U.S. posture on Iran,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran.
U.S. House Speaker affirms a commitment to Israel’s security and stresses the need for a two-state solution in talks with Israeli officials.
Jerusalem has expressed concern that the United States and other world powers will make concessions to Iran that will result in a new agreement with terms worse than the original.
The California lawmaker is expected to hold talks with Israeli officials about U.S. efforts to re-enter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
