Israel, Egypt Pushed U.S. to Bomb Iran
Before Nuclear Deal, John Kerry Says
Speaking at a Washington forum, the former
secretary of state said that Prime Minister
Netanyahu was 'genuinely agitating toward
action' against Iran
By AP
November 30, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Former Secretary of State John Kerry said both Israel and Egypt pushed the United States to “bomb Iran” before the 2015 nuclear deal was struck.
Kerry defended the deal during a forum in
Washington, where he said that a number of
kings and foreign presidents told the U.S.
that bombing was the only language Iran
would understand.
Kerry said that in his opinion it was “a
trap” because the same countries would have
publicly criticized the U.S. if it did carry
out a bombing of Iran as they were secretly
supporting.
Kerry said that Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu was “genuinely agitating
toward action.”
Kerry said he didn't know whether Iran would
resume pursuing a nuclear weapon in 10 to 15
years after restrictions in the deal sunset,
but he said it was the best deal the U.S.
could get.
In October, lawmakers in the United States
approved four different pieces of
legislation targeting Iran and its proxy
terror group in Lebanon, Hezbollah, after
U.S. President Donald Trump refused to
re-certify the nuclear deal, leaving its
fate to Congress.
At the time, Netanyahu congratulated Trump
for what he called his "courageous decision"
not to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran.
"He boldly confronted Iran's terrorist
regime," Netanyahu said. "If the Iran deal
is left unchanged, one thing is absolutely
certain. In a few years' time, the world's
foremost terrorist regime will have an
arsenal of nuclear weapons. And that's a
tremendous danger for our collective
future."
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Netanyahu said Trump has created an
"opportunity to fix this bad deal, to roll
back Iran's aggression and to confront its
criminal support of terrorism."
"That's why Israel embraces this
opportunity," Netanyahu said.
Earlier this month, the United Nations
agency monitoring Iran's compliance with a
landmark nuclear treaty issued a report
Monday stating that the country is keeping
its end of the deal that U.S. President
Donald Trump claims Tehran has violated
repeatedly.
The International Atomic Energy Agency
report stopped short of declaring outright
that Iran is honoring its obligations, in
keeping with its official role as an
impartial monitor of the restrictions the
treaty placed on Tehran's nuclear programs.
But in reporting no violations, the quarterly review's takeaway was that Iran was honoring its commitments to crimp uranium enrichment and other activities that can serve both civilian and military nuclear programs.
This article was originally published by Haaretz -
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