Jerusalem wants to discredit Geneva deal by finding evidence of Iranian duplicity.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered both the Mossad and Military Intelligence to search for evidence that Iran is continuing nuclear activities forbidden under the Geneva accord signed with world powers last week, The Sunday Times quoted Israeli defense sources as saying.
Proof that Iran was violating the terms of the six-month interim deal would complicate US President Barack Obama’s push to delay the passage of new congressional sanctions against Iran while a long-term deal with Iran is being negotiated.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said, both before and after the signing of the deal in Geneva, that the agreement does not sufficiently curb Iran’s ability to obtain nuclear weapons and prematurely offers the Islamic Republic sanctions relief.“Everyone has his own view regarding the Geneva agreement,” the Times quoted an Israeli intelligence source as saying. “But it is clear that if a smoking gun is produced, it will tumble like a house of cards.” The Times quoted Israeli defense sources as saying that Israeli intelligence was seeking to uncover clandestine activity in three areas of Iran’s nuclear program – hidden uranium enrichment sites, ballistic missiles and bomb design. “Iran would not have invested such a fortune [estimated at $200 billion] if in the end it does not produce nuclear weapons and turn Iran into a regional superpower,” the paper quoted an Israeli official as saying.

Rouhani: Iran to start building 2nd nuclear plant in Bushehr

Iranian president says « there will be nuclear reactors in most parts of » Gulf coast province.

Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said construction will soon start construction on a second nuclear power plant in the country’s southwest Bushehr province, Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.
“The first nuclear power plant is in operation in Bushehr province, and the construction of the second one will soon kick off ; development of new atomic power plants in the country will start in earnest and there will be nuclear reactors in most parts of Bushehr province,” Tasnim quoted him as saying.

English: Model of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant – in the Iranian pavilion of EXPO 2010 Shanghai Deutsch: Modell des Kernkraftwerks Buschehr – im iranischen Pavillon auf der EXPO 2010 Shanghai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Khamenei says Iran will not step back from its nuclear rights : Construction will continue at Arak nuclear site.
In reference to therecently-signed deal in Geneva with world powers on the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program, Rouhani said the airs in the international arena were less tense. However, the Iranian president stressed that « our enemies and rivals will not give up their hostility and rivalry. »
Under the Nov. 24 interim accord, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for limited sanctions relief.
The agreement – reached after more than four days of negotiations between Iran and the United States, France, Russia, China, Britain and Germany – was designed to buy time for negotiations on a final settlement of the decade-old nuclear dispute. Amid the third round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers in November, senior Iranian nuclear officials spoke of plans in Tehran  to construct two new nuclear power plants in the near future, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported.
“The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has put construction of the second and third (nuclear) power stations on its agenda due to the government’s programs and the emphasis laid by the President (Hassan Rouhani),” Fars quoted AEOI Deputy Chief Hossein Khalfi as saying.
The Bushehr site is located in a highly seismic area on Iran’s Gulf coast and began operations in 2011 after decades of delays.
The site is capable of holding six power reactors and Tehran has identified 16 sites elsewhere in the country suitable for other atomic plants.
The Russian-built plant is estimated to cost some $11 billion over four decades, making it one of the world’s most expensive plants.

‘Washington Post’: White House omitting facts about Iran nuclear deal

Paper’s editorial board warns that while interim deal delays progress toward bomb, text on comprehensive deal makes many concessions.

US President Barack Obama

The White House is omitting key facts about the nuclear deal signed with Iran, which makes a number of important concessions to the Islamic Republic, The Washington Postargued in its editorial Friday.
Sunday’s accord is a six-month agreement with an option to extend, meant to limit the Iranian nuclear program as the P5+1 – the US, UK, Russia, China, France and Germany – try to hammer out a comprehensive accord with Iran. In return, Iran received some sanctions relief.

Iran nuclear illustration (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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While Iran has agreed to cap uranium enrichment and delay completion of the Arak heavy-water reactor  during the interim, six-month negotiation period, the text of the deal says that the final agreement will involve « a mutually defined enrichment program with mutually agreed parameters.”
In other words, according to the Post’s Editorial Board, « the United States and its partners have already agreed that Iranian enrichment activity will continue indefinitely. In contrast, a long-standing US demand that an underground enrichment facility be closed is not mentioned. »
According to the editorial, the most troubling aspect of the Geneva interim deal is that it provides for a « sunset clause » in the comprehensive agreement, meaning even the long-term deal would not be finite, and Iran could return to uranium enrichment and plutonium production at some point in the future after sanctions have been removed.
How « long-term » the final agreement will be is a point of contention, with Iran proposing a period as short as 3-5 years before it is able to have an « unrestricted nuclear program. »
The Post argues that the interim agreement is positive, because it delays Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon without military action. However, the paper warns that the final agreement must be negotiated carefully.
« The concessions made to Iran will have to be balanced by a major rollback of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure — with no automatic expiration date. »
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday that he had agreed with US President Barack Obama to send an Israeli team headed by National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen to the US to discuss the comprehensive agreement with Iran. The permanent agreement, Netanyahu said, must lead to one result: “The dismantling of Iran’s military nuclear capability.”
“I would be happy if I could join those voices around the world that are praising the Geneva agreement,” Netanyahu said. “It is true that the international pressure which we applied was partly successful and has led to a better result than what was originally planned, but this is still a bad deal. It reduces the pressure on Iran without receiving anything tangible in return, and the Iranians who laughed all the way to the bank are themselves saying that this deal has saved them.”
That being said, diplomatic officials clarified that Jerusalem was well aware the agreement is a done deal, and that now the focus will be on “what happens down the line.”
“Israel intends to be a player,” an official said, first and foremost in consultations with the US, but alsowith the other members of the P5+1. 

Advertisement from the 1970s by American nuclear-energy companies, using Iran’s nuclear program as a marketing ploy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nuclear program of Iran (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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