Lapid Calls Out Biden’s Duplicity Over Iran Nuclear Deal
“This deal doesn’t meet Biden’s own stated standards,” complains Lapid; Netanyahu says US is “paving with gold” Iran’s path to the bomb.
First Obama, now Biden
As diplomatically as possible, Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday noted the disparity between US President Joe Biden’s so-called “red lines” and the terms of the nuclear agreement he is about to sign with Iran.
In a briefing with foreign press representatives, Lapid noted that a week ago the European Union presented to Iran what was supposed to be its “final offer” for returning to a nuclear deal that would ease sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Lapid said it came as no surprise to Israel that this “final offer” wasn’t really final at all.
“The Iranians, as always, did not say no. They said, ‘yes, but,’ and then they sent a draft of their own, with more changes and demands.
“Since then, there have been more discussions about this. The Iranians are making demands again. The negotiators are ready to make concessions, again. This is not the first time this has happened. The countries of the West draw a red line, the Iranians ignore it, and the red line moves.
“If the Iranians didn’t ‘take it,’ why didn’t the world ‘leave it?'”
Surely, Lapid continued, the West is aware that nuclear weapons is only one problem, and that pumping $100 billion annually into the regime of the ayatollahs will only serve to “undermine stability in the Middle East and spread terror around the globe.”
The Israeli leader stressed that his country is “not against any agreement. We are against this agreement, because it is a bad one.”
This is nothing new. What is a little shocking to Israel is watching Biden effectively go back on what he said just a month ago while visiting the Jewish state. As the looks poised to sign on to the deal, Lapid noted:
“In our eyes, [this agreement] does not meet the standards set by President Biden himself: preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear state.”
Biden won’t take Lapid’s call
This week Lapid called the leaders of Germany and France to urge them to walk away from the Iran talks after the Islamic Republic failed to accept their “final offer.”
He then phoned Washington to request the same of Biden.
But Biden wouldn’t take his call, according to Israeli media reports.
The White House reportedly told Lapid that Biden was “on vacation,” and would talk to him in a few days.
Netanyahu appears on American media
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was even less forgiving in his reaction to the Biden administration’s behavior vis-a-vis Iran.
Appearing Wednesday on the television news program “Fox & Friends,” Bibi stressed that the deal about to be signed “paves with gold” Iran’s path to an atomic bomb, while failing entirely to curb the Islamic Republic’s other destabilizing activities in the region.
“If you do not have a credible military threat against Iran, you essentially have nothing,” Netanyahu insisted, and at present few believe America is presenting any kind of military threat at all.
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