The Iran deal is a given, Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Moshe Yaalon said on Wednesday, in first remarks by an Israeli official in admission of the Tel Aviv regimes failure to torpedo efforts to conclude the agreement.
Speaking at a news conference in Washington with US Defense Minister Ashton Carter, Yaalon claimed that the Israeli regimes dispute with Washington over the Iran agreement is now over.
Now we have to look to the future, he said.
All to no avail
Israel engaged in a host of activities, financial and otherwise, to torpedo the nuclear negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the six other countries that culminated in the agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as well as to undermine the accord itself.
The JCPOA was clinched in the Austrian capital city of Vienna on July 14 after 18 days of intense negotiations and all-nighters that capped around 23 months of talks between Iran and the P5+1 the US, the UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany.
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1st-L), US Secretary of State John Kerry (C), and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (1st-standing R) watch backstage as EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif address an international press corps after the conclusion of the JCPOA, in Vienna, Austria, July 14, 2015. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]Prior to the conclusion of the agreement, in an address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2012, Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went out of his way to lobby against the then-ongoing negotiations, holding up a cartoon bomb and drawing ridicule from observers.
In March this year, Netanyahu also delivered a speech to the US Congress, where he spoke against the agreement and the US administrations efforts to secure it. The move silently alienated the administration of US President Barack Obama, which, despite remaining staunch in its support for the Israeli regime, seemed to believe that a speech by a foreign official in the legislature of the country and directly against the administration was a step too far.
Specifically targeting the United States, an Israeli lobby group known as AIPAC spent millions of dollars on TV advertisements in the home states of those US Congressmen who were undecided about how to act in a vote of disapproval in the US Congress over the JCPOA almost two months ago.
AIPAC also formed a tax-exempt entity within the US to oppose the JCPOA after it was reached.
As all of these measures to torpedo the negotiations and the subsequent agreement fell flat, the remarks by Yaalon may now also be an indication that the Israeli regime may seek to engage in damage control and seek to mend fences with the US.
By Press TV
