An Iranian political commentator says Israel is trying to sabotage talks between Tehran and the Sextet in line with Tel Avivs policy to keep the region unstable,Press TVreports.Israeli regime is working very hard to prevent any agreement from taking place, Mohammad Marandi, a professor at Tehran University, told Press TV on Thursday.
It is in the interest of the Israeli regime to have the problem fester and to continue, just as the Israeli regimes policy in the region is to keep the region unstable and to keep the region in disorder, Marandi added.
Over the past weeks, Israel has been spearheading an intensive lobbying campaign to prevent a nuclear deal between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - plus Germany.
After failing to push the US Congress to approve additional sanctions against Iran before the new round of talks, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow on Wednesday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Tehran and the Sextet began a fresh round of talks in Geneva.
"Our job is to try to sway the Russians, as we have been doing with all the players," Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin, who accompanied Netanyahu to Moscow, said on the same day.
Commenting on the pervious round of nuclear negotiations in early November, Marandi said the US backtracking on an initial agreement achieved during talks and later blaming Iran for the failure to reach a deal was a breach of trust.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said after the negotiations that the Iranian delegation had failed to respond to the proposal put forward by the six countries, causing talks to fall short of an agreement.
Addressing Kerry via his Twitter account, Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who headed the Iranian delegation in Geneva talks, said, Mr. Secretary, was it Iran that gutted over half of US draft Thursday night? And publicly commented against it Friday morning?"
Iran has felt that the United States was also being dishonest there and so this makes negotiations more difficult this time around because of the behavior of the United States, Marandi added.
By Press TV
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