[Iran Press TV] Zionists want the United States to stop negotiating with Iran over its nuclear energy program and launch a deadly war against Iran, an American political activist and writer says.Ralph Schoenman, former personal secretary of British philosopher Bertrand Russell, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on Israel's request to the US to extend the June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, a former intelligence minister and a high-ranking Likud Party member, is in Washington for meetings with top B.O. regime officials regarding the Iran nuclear talks.
He is urging the B.O. regime to soften the deadline, arguing it is inadvertently giving Tehran leverage in the negotiations.
"The demand by a senior Israeli official that the United States extend the deadline for the Iran nuclear talks is a ploy," Schoenman said.
"And it's quite clear what the intension is. It's to delay, and to stall and to continue to prevent an agreement being reached in the expectation that the forthcoming elections may bring a Republican to office and allow for the Congress to reject the agreement and with the expectation that the newly elected president will not veto that rejection," he added.
"So what we are looking here is another of the attempts on the part of the Zionist state to prevent any kind of agreement from being reached that would stand in the way of a confrontation, and in fact what the Zionists really want is an attack on Iran," he stated.
"And that's basically what we are witnessing here, and they are not even opaque about their design," the political activist continued.
"They're exclusively speculating that they can use [Sheldon] Adelson and many [others like him] to spend huge sums of money to attempt to elect the Congress and a president that will go along with the rejection, and will prevent any kind of understanding from being reached, intensify the sanctions, and to take further steps to provoke a war. That's the intent," he pointed out.