{"id":50799,"date":"2012-06-18T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=50799"},"modified":"2012-06-21T07:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:13:47","slug":"israel-make-military-threats-against-iran-more-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=50799","title":{"rendered":"Israel: Make military threats against Iran more real"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Herb Keinon \u2013 JPost June 18, 2012<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As 3rd round of talks between Iran, world powers expected to begin in Moscow officials say international community must make its demands clear, ratchet up economic and diplomatic pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the eve of the third round of talks between Iran and the world powers expected to begin Monday in Moscow, Israeli officials urged the international community to better impress upon Tehran that they will face military action if their nuclear march is not stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cOur position is that the international community needs to do three things for the talks to be successful,\u201d an official said Sunday. \u201cMake its demands crystal clear and tied to a clear timeline for implementation, ratchet up the economic and diplomatic pressure, and augment that pressure by making clear there is a credible military option.\u201d The official, reflecting a position that has been percolating for weeks in Jerusalem, said there is a sense the Iranians are not yet convinced that when the US or others say that \u201call options are on the table,\u201d they actually mean it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Only if the regime in Iran believes that the continuation of the nuclear program is totally unacceptable, and the world will not allow it even if it means military action, will diplomacy work, the official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe would like the international community to say that these are our demands, these are our sanctions, comply&#8230;or else, \u201c he said. \u201cJust as we think the sanctions have to be beefed up, this position must be clearly stated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official said there was a need for greater specificity when repeating the mantra \u201call options are on the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In recent weeks differences between Israel and the US administration over the world powers\u2019 negotiating strategy with Iran have come out into the open, with the group of nations negotiating with Iran known as the P5+1 \u2013 the US, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany \u2013 focused on getting the Iranians to stop enriching uranium to 20 percent, while Israel maintains Iran must stop all uranium enrichment at any level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In addition to ending all uranium enrichment, Israel is also calling for Iran to transfer all of the already enriched uranium in its possession out of the country, and to close down the underground nuclear facility at Qom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel was critical of the two previous rounds of talks the P5+1 held with Iran this year \u2013 with one round held in Baghdad last month, and the other held in Istanbul in April \u2013 saying the demands on Iran were too low and were enabling the Iranians to continue their nuclear development even as they negotiated with the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in an interview earlier this month with Germany\u2019s<em> Bild<\/em> newspaper, said: \u201cThe P5+1 are so keen on getting any agreement that they have lowered the demands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel\u2019s position on what demands should be made of Tehran was buttressed Friday by the US Congress, when a bipartisan letter signed by 44 senators was sent to Obama, urging him to end negotiations unless Iran halted all enrichment and closed the facility at Qom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Moscow talks are coming 10 days before the US is to implement a series of tough sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil clients, and two weeks before the EU begins its embargo of Iranian oil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/IranianThreat\/News\/Article.aspx?id=274216\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the third round of nuclear talks gets underway Israeli officals urge participants to impress on Iran that \u201call options are on the 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