{"id":25610,"date":"2015-08-17T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2015-08-17T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:26:06","slug":"israel-wanted-iran-talks-to-deal-with-nukes-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/israel-wanted-iran-talks-to-deal-with-nukes-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Wanted Iran Talks To Deal With Nukes Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of the Iran deal &#150; the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action\">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action<\/a> &#150; loudly complain that it deals only with the nuclear issue. Why, they ask, didn&#8217;t the P5+1 talks also take up Iran&#8217;s detention of Americans and its alleged machinations in the Middle East?<\/p>\n<p>They should ask the Israelis.<\/p>\n<p><i>It was, after all, Israel&#8217;s leaders who insisted that the nuclear file be addressed first and on its own, and who pushed back hard against any attempt to forge a more comprehensive understanding or grand bargain with Iran.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/israel\/2015-08-12\/israels-iran-deal-enthusiasts\">David Levy<\/a> at <i>Foreign Affairs <\/i>magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Iran offered a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/17\/AR2006061700727.html\">grand bargain<\/a> to the United States in 2003, in which all outstanding issues would be discussed, including Iran&#8217;s support for the Palestinians. Indeed, as part of the proffered grand bargain, Iran accepted Saudi Arabia&#8217;s previous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_Peace_Initiative\">Arab Peace Initiative<\/a> (2002, renewed 2007), which would have included recognition of Israel in a two-state context. President George W. Bush gave Iran&#8217;s overture the back of his hand, having branded Iran in 2002 as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axis_of_evil\">Axis of Evil<\/a> along with Iraq and North Korea. (This was a fine thank-you for Iran&#8217;s cooperation after the 9\/11 attacks.) <\/p>\n<p><i>Sheldon Richman is chairman of the trustees of the <a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/\">Center for a Stateless Society<\/a>. He blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/israel-wanted-iran-talks-to-deal-with.html\">Free Association<\/a>. Reprinted with permission from Free Assocation.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of the Iran deal &#150; the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action &#150; loudly complain that it deals only with the nuclear issue. Why, they ask, didn&#8217;t the P5+1 talks also take up Iran&#8217;s detention of Americans and its alleged machinations in the Middle East? They should ask the Israelis. It was, after all, Israel&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25614,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/25614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}