{"id":226713,"date":"2021-02-04T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226713"},"modified":"2021-02-06T06:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:36:46","slug":"tv-mossad-chief-to-meet-biden-set-out-terms-for-overhaul-of-iran-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226713","title":{"rendered":"TV: Mossad chief to meet Biden, set out terms for overhaul of Iran nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times of Israel \u2013 Jan 23, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to dispatch Mossad chief Yossi Cohen to Washington in the coming weeks to lay out Israel\u2019s demands of the Biden administration for any new version of the Iran nuclear deal, Channel 12 news reported Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The network said Cohen, one of Netanyahu\u2019s most trusted colleagues, is to travel to the US within the next month and will be the first senior Israeli official to meet US President Joe Biden. He is also expected to meet with the head of the CIA.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office\u2019s announced that Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat spoke by phone with his new American counterpart Jake Sullivan, in the first confirmed high-level conservation between Israeli officials and the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two agreed to soon discuss many topics on the agenda, including the Iranian issue, regional matters and advancing the Abraham Accords,\u201d the PMO said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In the US, Cohen and his team are expected to present the Biden administration with all the information gathered by Israel on the progress of Iran\u2019s rogue nuclear program, according to the report, and demand what amounts to a radical overhaul of the 2015 deal with far more stringent commitments from Tehran to ensure it cannot attain nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

The TV report further said Cohen will set out what Israel believes are core components to which the Iranian regime would have to commit under the terms of any resumed version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Netanyahu publicly lobbied the Obama administration in vain against the deal, successfully encouraged president Donald Trump to withdraw from it, and has urged Biden to reconsider his declared intention to rejoin it.<\/p>\n

Were the US nonetheless move to rejoin the nuclear deal, Cohen will present the following demands that Israel\u2019s government believes must be incorporated, Channel 12 said: That Iran must halt the enriching of uranium; stop producing advanced centrifuges; cease supporting terror groups, foremost Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah; end its military presence in Iraq, Syria and Yemen; stop terror activity against Israeli targets overseas; and grant full access to the IAEA on all aspects of its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

Israel fears a revived deal under which Iran will be able to both continue enriching uranium and be granted financial relief that will enable the Islamist regime to repair the economy, the TV report said. It did not name sources for the story, but cited \u201cmessages\u201d conveyed between the Biden administration and Israel.<\/p>\n

Cohen has led the Mossad for the past five years, including overseeing the Mossad operation that smuggled a trove of material from a warehouse in Tehran documenting the regime\u2019s rogue nuclear program, which was in place before the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers went into effect. Netanyahu revealed the haul in April 2018, and declared<\/a> that it proved \u201cIran lied\u201d when denying it was working toward the bomb.<\/p>\n

Cohen was in the US earlier this month, for a farewell meeting with secretary of state Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n

Congratulating<\/a> Biden on taking office on Wednesday, Netanyahu urged the new US president to work with Israel to confront \u201cthe threat posed by Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said<\/a> at a confirmation hearing on Tuesday that the administration would consult with Israel and other allies before a return to the 2015 deal.<\/p>\n

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The Biden administration seems even more beholden to Zionist demands than its predecessor. According to the Times of Israel, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen will visit Washington \u201cto lay out Israel\u2019s demands of the Biden administration for any new version of the Iran nuclear deal\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226715,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226713\/revisions\/226715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}