Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Has The U.S. Been Conducting Secret Negotiations With Iran For The Past Year?

Photo: Valerie Jarrett, an adviser to US President Barack Obama (photo credit: public domain via Wikipedia)

‘Geneva Talks A Facade, US-Iran Worked Secretly On Deal For Past Year’ -- Times of Israel

White House denies report Obama team has been negotiating terms with Tehran, didn’t fully coordinate with Israel

The Geneva negotiations between the so-called P5+1 powers and Iran are a mere “facade,” because the terms of a deal on Iran’s nuclear program have been negotiated in talks between a top adviser to President Barack Obama and a leading Iranian nuclear official that have continued in secret for more than a year, Israeli television reported Sunday.

Despite ostensible full coordination between the US and Israel over strategies for thwarting Iran’s nuclear weapons drive, the administration did not keep Israel fully informed on those talks, Channel 10 news reported, but Jerusalem nonetheless has a pretty clear picture of what has been going on in the secret channel.

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Update: White House: ‘Absolutely no truth’ to Valerie Jarrett-Iran talks report -- Voices

My Comment: I have doubts on this story .... Valerie Jarrett's focus is on politics .... not doing diplomacy with Iran

2 comments:

James said...

Want to bet?

War News Updates Editor said...

Good point James. I am not going to bet on this one.