Pessimism in the West ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks with Iran

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Talks on a return to the nuclear deal with Iran resume today in Vienna with a sense of mutual distrust between Iran and the West. “This is really the last chance for Iran to sign, and I urge them to do so because we are determined to work with our partners to ensure that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons,” she told the Research Institute. ‘Atham House.

French Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian confirmed the resumption of nuclear talks today, but said: “Things do not look encouraging at the moment. The impression is that the Iranians want to make the talks drag on.” Le Darian will meet this morning in Paris, also on this issue, with Germany’s new Foreign Minister Magdalena Barbock.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he does not have high hopes for the satisfactory results of the talks. “We continue to believe that returning to fulfillment of the obligations in the agreement is the best way forward, but it is not an eternal horizon,” he said. “Because we will not allow Iran to grind water in talks and not move forward with serious or meaningful proposals to solve the difficult problems – and at the same time move forward with the nuclear program.”

Informed Iranian sources told Hezbollah’s Al-Miyadin channel that the Iranian delegation had renewed its demand to compensate Iran for its losses because of the sanctions against it. Sources said the British Foreign Secretary’s statements were “a message of unacceptable threat”. It was further stated that the regime does not believe that the parties in the talks will not reach results soon.

At the same time, the US Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on Iranian figures. These are sanctions against 15 people and four Iranian bodies operating in Iran, Syria and Uganda. The sanctions also target, among others, Golmarza Suleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards’ brutal militia, Basij.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh wrote on Twitter: “Even in the wake of the talks in Vienna, the United States is unable to stop imposing sanctions on Iran. Increasing sanctions will not create an advantage – and it does not show seriousness and goodwill.”

Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Benny Ganz took off last night for Washington for a series of meetings with the US administration. Ganz, who wants to show more muscle and increase presence in the region, believes that a return to the agreement is not a disaster – but it is worth improving it and the supervision of Tehran. At the same time, Mossad chief David Barnea updated the Americans on new materials about Iran.

Meanwhile, a majority of the public in Israel (54%) in the country estimates that Iran is an existential danger to a great or very great extent to Israel. This is according to the Israeli Voice Index of the Viterbi Center for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy at the Israel Democracy Institute, published yesterday.

According to the survey, about a quarter of the public believes that the danger from Iran is moderate and only a minority (13%) that its danger is small or not at all a danger. The differences between the Jewish public and the Arabs are dramatic: while a large majority (62%) of the Jews believe that Iran is an existential danger to Israel, only a minority (19%) of the Arabs believe so.
In this context, about half (51%) of the public agree that Israel must militarily attack Iran’s nuclear facilities even without American consent; Less than a third (31%) disagreed with this claim.

The survey found large gaps in support for assault between Jews (58% support) and Arabs (18%). Here the gaps between the political camps in the Jewish public are large: on the right about two-thirds (67%) agree that Israel should attack Iran, even without American consent, half of the center think so and on the left just over a third (37.5%). In general, there has been no significant change in public opinion around Iran on both questions than in the February survey.

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