Ex-IDF generals, top Mossad officials urge Biden’s return to Iran deal

Former senior defense officials express support for Biden's position not to lift Iran sanctions unless it returns to 2015 deal

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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J Post: A group of former top officials from Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, the IDF and the Mossad sent a letter on Monday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing support for a US return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
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Led by former IDF deputy chief of staff Matan Vilnai, Commanders for Israel’s Security said in the letter that it “welcomes the American initiative to get Iran to again transparently follow the guidelines in the JCPOA, as long as it includes an Iranian commitment to abide by UN Security Council Resolution 2231” regarding development of ballistic missiles.
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In addition to Vilnai, the letter was signed by former Mossad director Tamir Pardo, former IDF OC Operations Directorate Maj.-Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, former National Security Council head Uzi Arad and Eli Levite, the former principal deputy director-general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission.
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The former senior defense officials expressed support for President Joe Biden’s current position not to lift sanctions on Iran unless it returns to abide by the 2015 deal. The first goal needs to be to get Tehran back into compliance and then to work on a follow-up deal that would fill the holes in the JCPOA, they said.
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“This will take into account new information that has been accumulated since the JCPOA, as well as additional problems that Iran presents,” the letter said.
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It was not the first time that the group has come out against Netanyahu’s efforts to stop the JCPOA. Ahead of the signing of the 2015 deal, the group called on the prime minister to cancel his speech to the US Congress.
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At that time, former Mossad deputy director Amiram Levin said that while it was difficult for him to speak out against Netanyahu, who served under him in the IDF, the prime minister’s navigation was off.
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“Leaders speak privately, not out in the open,” he said. “The visit and the speech are exactly the opposite of that.”
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“Rather than working hand in hand with the US president, we are going there and sticking our thumb in his eye,” Levin said. “That not only hurts the president, but above all, it hurts the citizens of the US, who [while they] are fans of Israel, are first and foremost Americans.”
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/ex-idf-generals-top-mossad-officials-on-biden-to-return-to-iran-deal-659805

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6 COMMENTS

  1. This group of Israelis are not nice people, but unlike Netanyahu, they are both sane and pragmatic. Since they know full-scale war against Iran is a lose situation for Israel, they will stop it from happening if possible (there are Yigal Amir types waiting in the wings if the late Roi Tov was correct).

  2. This is cute. They support getting the US back in, but insist on renegotiation the deal with the Israelis have and undeclared nuclear program and weapons and a screw you attitude toward inspections. What’s not to love about that?

    • Iran is one of the Countries that will not kill innocent people with nuclear weapons. IMHO. So what is this really about? Sanctions? Dancing through hoops? Money? (It’s always money).

  3. Who are these people to demand others comply with UN resolutions when they have ignored hundreds over decades and nothing has been done about it by the bought out bastards in their pocket!

  5. Oh how sweet. Mossad cares for the average US citizen.

    Khamenei is not messing around. Maybe that terrorist trash in shitholistan should get with the program. His mashugana was fired and everything he gifted to Likud will be taken back.

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