The decision regarding the return to the nuclear agreement with Iran can be made within a few days. This is what the French Foreign Minister said today (Wednesday), in a speech he delivered in Parliament. According to Jean-Yves Le Darian, the ball is in the hands of Iran, which needs to make a political decision. If she chooses not to return to the agreement, he says a “serious crisis” will arise.
If at the beginning, the Biden administration talked about an agreement that would be “longer and stronger”, at the moment it seems that the proposal on the table is quite similar to the old nuclear agreement, the one that Israel led by Netanyahu campaigned against, and later supported and commissioned for American retirement.
In recent weeks, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said on several occasions that a return to the nuclear deal is a very bad scenario for Israel. He said the same in a phone call between him and US President Joe Biden at the beginning of last week. In an interview with the Bahraini newspaper this week, Bennett added that it would be a strategic mistake.
A senior Israeli political figure also said yesterday that “we are at a very advanced point,” in talks that resumed in Vienna last week. He added that Israel is making tremendous efforts even these days, in different ways than in the past, to achieve the goal of not renewing the agreement. “It is not easy because it is very advanced. We are not giving up. It is not good. It is not good to strengthen such a significant terrorist factor in the region.”
One of the Israeli attempts is to send an Israeli delegation to Vienna. Yesterday, the head of the Russian delegation for talks, Mikhail Oliynov, posted on Twitter a picture of a meeting of his team with the Israeli delegation headed by the Deputy Director General of Strategy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yosh Zarqa.