A wharehouse at Iran Natanz nuclear facility after it was damaged by suspected arson
Times of Israel – Nov 22, 2021
US officials have warned Israel that its attacks against the Iranian nuclear program are counterproductive and have enabled Tehran to rebuild an even more efficient enrichment system, the New York Times reported Sunday.
Citing officials familiar with the behind-the-scenes discussion between Washington and Jerusalem, as the US continues to try and bring Iran back into the nuclear deal, the report said that Israeli officials have dismissed the warnings, saying they have “no intention of letting up.”
Noting that in the last 20 months there have been four explosions at Iranian nuclear facilities attributed to Israel, along with the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, the report said US officials have cautioned their Israeli counterparts that while such efforts may be “tactically satisfying,” they are “ultimately counterproductive.”
In the wake of the explosions, which took uranium enrichments plants offline and destroyed dozens of centrifuges, the Americans noted that Iran has managed to resume enrichment within months, often installing newer machines that can enrich uranium far faster.
However, the officials said Israel appeared unmoved by the arguments, and this was one of the many areas on which the US and Israel disagree regarding efforts to thwart Tehran’s drive to build nuclear weapons.
Further complicating matters was the fact that Iran has apparently managed to improve its defenses, particularly in the cyber field, the report said. As a consequence, cyber attacks like the Stuxnet attack that crippled centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear enrichment site for more than a year, an attack widely reported to be a joint US-Israeli effort, have become “much harder now to pull off.”
The major concern now was how close Iran has come to being able to build a nuclear weapon since then-US president Donald Trump withdrew the US from the deal in 2018.
This week, with Iran set for talks with world powers in Vienna on November 29, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tehran had again increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
Iran’s stockpile, as of November 6, was many times in excess of the limit laid down in the agreement with world powers, said the IAEA report. Such highly enriched uranium can be easily refined to make atomic weapons, which is why world powers have sought to contain Tehran’s nuclear program.
The Vienna-based agency told members that it is still not able to verify Iran’s exact stockpile of enriched uranium due to the limitations Tehran imposed on UN inspectors earlier this year.
The IAEA has been unable to access surveillance footage of Iranian nuclear sites or of online enrichment monitors and electronic seals since February. The agency’s chief, Rafael Mariano Grossi, told The Associated Press this month that the situation was like “flying in a heavily clouded sky.”
Sunday’s NYT report said that since abandoning the agreement, Iran had managed to reduce its breakout time to a bomb from about a year to just a few weeks.
“Before Mr. Trump decided to scrap the deal, Iran had adhered to the limits of the 2015 agreement — which by most estimates kept it about a year from ‘breakout,’ the point where it has enough material for a bomb. While estimates vary, that buffer is now down to somewhere between three weeks and a few months, which would change the geopolitical calculation throughout the Middle East,” the report said.
US officials have publicly warned that Iran’s violations are making it increasingly unlikely that there can be a return to the 2015 deal as it was.
The US envoy for Iran Robert Malley warned Friday that Tehran was approaching the point of no return for reviving a nuclear deal after it boosted its stocks of enriched uranium before the talks resume this month.
“The time will come if Iran continues at this pace with the advancements they’ve made, [it] will make it impossible even if we were going to go back to the JCPOA to recapture the benefits,” Malley told the Manama Dialogue conference in Bahrain, referring to the deal by its official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“Iran’s advances are spreading alarm across the region… that’s what’s making the clock tick faster and making all of us say that the time is short for a return to the JCPOA,” Malley said.
“And I want to be clear, because there’s no ambiguity about what they seem to be doing now, which is to drag their feet on the nuclear talks and accelerate the progress in their nuclear program,” he added.
The US envoy said he was not encouraged by the statements from the new Iranian government of President Ebrahim Raisi, which earlier on Friday accused Washington of conducting a “propaganda campaign” against the country.
With the possibility of a return to the 2015 deal fading, the US was examining the possibility of hammering out an interim deal with Iran, the New York Times report said, confirming a separate report last week. “Inside the White House, there has been a scramble in recent days to explore whether some kind of interim deal might be possible to freeze Iran’s production of more enriched uranium and its conversion of that fuel to metallic form — a necessary step in fabricating a warhead,” the Times said. “In return, the United States might ease a limited number of sanctions. That would not solve the problem. But it might buy time for negotiations, while holding off Israeli threats to bomb Iranian facilities.”
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised the prospect of an interim agreement with Iran, to allow more time for nuclear negotiations, in talks with his Israeli counterpart, Eyal Hulata, the Axios news site reported last week.
A pair of American sources said Sullivan and Hulata were just “brainstorming,” and that the proposal was suggested by an unspecified European ally of the US.
The US sources said the proposal was for Iran to suspend a disallowed nuclear activity such as enriching uranium to 60 percent, in exchange for the US and allied countries releasing some frozen Iranian money, or issuing sanctions waivers on humanitarian goods.
An unnamed Israeli official cited in the Axios report said Hulata told Sullivan he was against the idea and Israel’s concern was that any interim agreement could become permanent, allowing Iran to maintain its nuclear infrastructure and supply of uranium it has built up.
The US has been trying to reassure its allies in recent days that if diplomacy fails, other options are available.
“The United States remains committed to preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. And we remain committed to a diplomatic outcome of the nuclear issue,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at the Manama event, which was put on by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“But if Iran isn’t willing to engage seriously, then we will look at all of the options necessary to keep the United States secure,” he said.
Israel has been more direct, repeatedly warning it will attack Iran’s nuclear program and allocating billions of dollars to the military to prepare and train for a potential strike.
Iran has never been a threat to the US – and this started back in ’53 with eliminating Mosaddegh and sticking the criminal Shah Pahlavi that only protected the 4 horsemen’s interests.
Israel and the West’s problem with Iran have very little to do with nukes. Iran is a cultural and ideologically significant power that has respect and influence well beyond its borders.
Israel doesn’t like it, & would do anything to turn Iran into a backward country. Iran has a highly educated population, amazing culture, great art, architecture, & is a stunningly beautiful country. Israel can’t abide this when most of Israel looks like a dump.
The US point is that Iran now has some very big friends, such as China, & Russia, even though relations with Russia have been difficult, there’s no way Russia wants Iran to be trashed.
As much as many on here say China is run by the Jews, things are not that simple in reality. If China were run by Jews, it would be a basketcase state like the US & UK.
Umrica is reaping what she sow.
And to think you fought for these deranged Zionist mongrel mutants in WWII to establish the State of Israel for them. Only the Nazis opposed this plan.
But that’s what happens for believing in a Jewish religion/’messiah’ (Christianity) for hundreds of years–you’re going to fight & die for Jewish interests/power. Christianity–the greatest psy-op of all time.
It’s all one big Globalist show, all of the protagonists are in it together; implementing the Jew World Order directives to the letter and in unison, beginning with the HOAX Plandemic which is just the start of biggest GENOCIDE humanity has ever know.
Even their belt and Road project, which incidentally is also a Rothschild project, where these supposedly belligerent parties like Israel and Iran, or even China and Russia have been secretly closely cooperating as keen implementer of their Jewish Masters’ project of world domination via drastic population culling (getting rid of 95% of the “useless eaters” that we are) and enslaving the rest which won’t be human anyway, since they are already genetically fucked up and AI controlled zombies, the rest is just Commedia Dell Arte for the thick Goyim to perpetuate the never ending Kosher deception.
“US officials have warned Israel that its attacks against the Iranian nuclear program are counterproductive”….oh yeah, that’s really going to stop that psychopathic state, surrre!!
Just my opinion: I think posts like this one on The Truthseeker (UK) serve as “probes” to see how the “awake community” (“sentients” as one brave Canadian blogger describes our still hardy unvaccinated band) reacts: number of comments (level of interest, degree of hopelessness, content of comments. But for “lewis” and “carl” and “antiseptic”, numbers and diversity of opinion might diminish substantially.
Like the burn-out of darkmoon, a tool of intelligence that outlived its usefulness and the patience of those maintaining the site. More and better things to do as our respective ages advance, inexorably!
I’d be delighted, Rixon, if you posted this comment of mine.
Mac Clancy.
Most cowardly army in the world who watch with glee as American children die for coward Israeli cur-dog.
2006 Coward army ran away in the Leb. Dirty sum of our world.
Just cure the cancer of our world…
Defund Israeli coward America
Defund that dirty whore America…
Defund…
USS Liberty/9/11…
the futur holds so many nuklear dangers
in its hand. the world with jewish-islamic
fanatism will go to hell :
USRAEL–RUSSIA
ISRAHELL/CHINA–USA
PAKISTAN–INDIA
IRAN/PAKISTAN–ISRAHELL
ISRAHELL–IRAN
IRAN–ISRAHELL/SAUDIS
ISRAHELL/CHINA–AUSTRALIA
UK SAS MININUKES +
MOSSAD MININUKES between
As some old Russian writer once thought. We should meet them in our doorway with a hatchet to their skull, a knife in their gullet. Make those bastard think as they stroll their caravan of hate as they have been ejected from so many countries as they love white Christian to death.
They murdered our Christ as they murdered our Kennedy as caravan of hate just rolls on.
Covid, NKVD, tis but a word in language of brute empire…
Bomb Israel out of existence. Get rid of the complicit in creating this abomination of hate and destruction and dual “citizenship” which is a farce. The Freemasons will serve as our nursery – i.e. wipe them out of existence (Note: run by Judaism and Crytos. Christian Identity – heavily complicit and stupid as they are ignorant. Wipe out all aspects of admiratly law and bring the power to the small business owner making corporations, and the structure of parasite financial system disappear. All speculative business is eliminated. Return to our social mores, morals and cooperation. Eliminate all defense contractors and make defense to only exist on the land of which they are associated with. Treason is among all branches of all institutions and must be flushed out as those that know better that have lied are in the upper tier of education, professions and control all the positions of strategic interest for what is going on with the fake COVID-19, punishable by what ever they have done and in the case of injections, as Vernon says, is 1st degree premeditated murder and the fact that virus are 1000x smaller or more from most all masks being warn which is worthless no matter what it covers as a true global pandemic of death of a high percentage isn’t even close to reality. All mainstream media regurgitating the talking points deserve the punishment of what will come, death, to those who are in the senior positions and mouth pieces of any and all media.
Israel has proven itself to be the greatest lying enterprise of perpetual despotism in the history of man and far beyond Carthage as the history is in rivers of blood of the innocent and opposite of anything their books of lies fabricate and their multitude of gods which they have changed like a chameleon with the poison of a black adder. Their is NO truth in what they profess and talk to goyim as animals and don’t give a damn about creation nor creator. It is a known fact for anyone that reads that this has been their statements and in their writing for thousands of years. I will never shed a tear for those who have committed perpetually the abomination that has been unleashed on all living things as these people speak as if they are god (which the DO BELIEVE AS THEY ARE LIGHT OF THE SHINING ONE _HALAL. )
Israel wants to allocate billions toward preparation for Iran. Whose billions? They mean America’s billions. The billions that belong to the American people.
US Warns Israel….
What’s that noise? Bullshit-O-Meter Needle breaking through the glass