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Report: Obama To Talk To Iran, Leave Israel In The Cold
2012-12-13
Without consulting Israel, Obama has decided to hold direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.

U.S. President Barack Obama
Why can't I just eat my waffle?...
plans to soon propose to Iran that it negotiate directly with the Americans about its nuclear program, Channel 10 News reported on Tuesday.

The report, which cited a senior American official, said that Obama's move was made without any coordination or consultation with Israel.

According to the report, the Americans probably will allow a period of four to five months for negotiations with Tehran. If the talks fail, they may then resort to the military option. As well, Obama is planning to set preconditions for contacts with the Islamic Theocratic Republic, including that it halt its uranium enrichment and agree to allow external monitoring of its nuclear facilities.

This is not the first time that Israel and the United States do not see eye to eye on the issue of Iran arming itself with nuclear weapons, but this is the first time that action was taken at such a high level of importance without informing Israel, noted Channel 10.

According to Channel 10, the White House believes that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is personally responsible for the leaks to the media of the IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program, as was reported by the British Guardian on Monday.

The Guardian report indicated that Israel is suspected of carrying out a series of leaks implicating Iran in nuclear weapons experiments, in an attempt to raise international pressure on Tehran and halt its nuclear program.

The report said that Western diplomats believe the leaks may have backfired, compromising a UN-sanctioned investigation into Iran's past nuclear activities and current aspirations.

The latest leak, published by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named (AP), purported to be an Iranian diagram showing the physics of a nuclear blast, but scientists quickly pointed out an elementary mistake that cast doubt on its significance and authenticity.

The IAEA has accused Iranian authorities of undermining its effort to probe suspected nuclear weapons research at the Parchin facility by carrying out possible clean-up operations.

The head of the UN agency, Yukiya Amano, said last week that despite the clean-up, inspections at the military complex near Tehran would be "very useful".
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  OOOOPPSIES, forgot WAFF > US MILITARY TO BOOST PHILIPPINES PRESENCE, CHINA TELLS ARMY TO BE PREPARED, to wage "military struggle".

and

* RELATED TOPIX > BEIJING: XI TELLS ARMY TO BE READY FOR "REAL COMBAT".

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN AND THE "ISLAMIC BOMB".

* SAME > [Gujurat Chief] MODI TO PM [Mammohan Singh]: DON'T EVEN THINK OF GIVING SIR CREEK TO PAKISTAN, lest India risk the destabilization of Gujurat border security vee Pakistan [Militant cross-border raids, insurgency].

Nostradamus + Guam Taotamonas strike again.

And once again again, Virgina, we learn what happens when Lindsay Lohan dyes her hair!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-12-13 01:19  

#1  See also TOPIX > REAL CLEAR WORLD > [Times of Israel] OBAMA PLANNING NEW TALKS WID IRAN, US WILL STRIKE IRAN IN 4-5 MONTHS IFF THEY DON'T BEAR FRUIT, ISRAELI TV REPORT SAYS.

Presuming that the deadline is still March 2013 for Iran to surrender to the UNIAEA, that makes the war window July-August = Mid-Late Summer 2013 at the earliest.

Towards EOY 2013 [> Jan 2014?] iff Russia, etc. chooses to oppose as usual at the UNSC.

The good news for Iran is that IMO China is NOT going to wait that long for Japan + ASEAN to surrender in the East China Sea + South China Sea. SUBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, THE US COULD BECOME INVOLVED IN A MAJOR OVERSEAS SHOOTING WAR ANYTIME JANUARY 1ST 2014 WHEN CHINA'S NEW SOUTH CHINA SEAS DECREE GOES INTO EFFECT. Vietnam's own SCS Decree goes into effect on January 21st, 2014.

The above doesn't even include the very real Domestic + Economic threats Obama faces in 2013.

2014 = RISE OF THE "NEW CONFEDERACY" AGZ THE OWG GLOBALIST "UNION".

POTUS ABE LINCOLN TO CALL FOR 75,000 VAMPIRE SLAYERS TO VOLUNTEER TO JOIN THE GRAND ARMY OF THE SOVIET STATE GLOBO-REPUBLIK OF AMERIKKA???

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-12-13 01:08  

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