Israel Hopes Nuke Talks Collapse With Biden's Refusal to Remove Iran’s Guards From Terror List

Haaertz ^ | 4/9/22 | Jonathan Lis

[EBH]

Israel sees the likely U.S. decision to refuse Iran’s demand to remove its Revolutionary Guards from its terror blacklist, as reported Saturday by the Washington Post, as a sign of success of concentrated lobbying efforts in recent weeks, led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.

While U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are leading talks in Washington to reach a final decision on the matter, an informed Israeli source told Haaretz that Israel expects Biden to make the announcement soon. "It's not final, but that's where it's headed," the source said.

The Israeli leadership now hopes that keeping the U.S. designation of the Guards as a “foreign terrorist organization” (FTO) would be met with Iranian resistance, potentially leading to the collapse of talks between Tehran and world powers who have been negotiating in Vienna in a bid to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal.

[Spok]

It would be the first thing Brandon got right so I am not holding my breath.

[nikos1121]

Window dressing.

[FarCenter]

Since it expires in 3 years, it seems pointless.

[EBH]

Appearances can be deceiving. It all depends what happens in between and if anything ...that last 2 years taught us is the world changes very rapidly at times.

[SJackson]

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[Eleutheria5]

I wouldn’t say that. “Getting it right” would be walking away from this Faust-ian bargain right now. Did he go to stupid school, or is he self-mis-educated.