Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before his reelection, when a visit to the Natanz nuclear site. (Reuters)
By Marianne ENAULT
leJDD.fr
According to Israeli media, Israel has asked its allies, the United States in the lead, moving to "Plan B" in the Iranian nuclear issue. Asked on ABC, the U.S. vice president, Joe Biden, said Israel could "decide for himself what is in his interest." Barack Obama is not really of that opinion: it has once again reiterated its intention to negotiate.
"Israel is looking for a 'plan B' if U.S. talks fail and Iran." In its Monday edition, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports Israeli concerns after the disputed re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The paper said Israel would have asked his partners - the U.S., of course, but also Germany, France, Russia and Japan - to prepare a "plan B" if the proposed offer of dialogue from Washington to Tehran were to fail. This should, according to the Jewish state, include "crippling sanctions. According to Haaretz, following recent events in Iran, "Israeli intelligence services believe that the chances that dialogue starts are near zero." Remains whether it involves strikes on Iranian territory. The Sunday Times Saudi Arabia would, in this case, given its tacit approval to the Israeli government for an overview of its territory. Israel has denied the report.
On this subject, the vice-president Joe Biden said something ambiguous Sunday on ABC. "Israel can determine by itself is a sovereign nation, which is in its interest and what he decides to do vis-à-vis Iran and anyone else," he declared. "Whether we agree or not. They have the right to do (...) We can not dictate to another sovereign nation what it can do and not do when she decides, if it decides it is threatened in its existence, "he added. Of about Tehran interpreted as a carte blanche to the Israeli army to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, the international community suspects to military purposes." The U.S. and Israel both know the consequences of a wrong decision ", commented the head of the parliamentary committee on national security Broujerd Aladdin, reports the Jerusalem Post. And to promise action" real and decisive "if attack.
Obama still believes in dialogue
Officially, however, the United States still support diplomatic channels to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue. In an interview with The New York Times published Sunday, Barack Obama expressed his determination to complete the negotiations. "We have offered Iran a path to rejoining the international community," he recalls, saying it is still valid despite the crackdown on protesters who disagree with the outcome of the presidential election on June 12 . He added that he expected progress by the end of the year, otherwise it does not exclude "a range of measures" against Tehran.
But according to the daily Haaretz, U.S. negotiators have expressed to Israeli officials in their skepticism about the chances of successful dialogue. Problem for the United States, they can hardly adopt a firmer tone, at least in the short term, the risk that their offer of dialogue with Tehran regarded as never having been serious. Asked on the program Fox News Sunday, the chief of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, has he considered that the attack on Iranian nuclear facilities could be "extremely disruptive". "It is impossible to predict the consequences," he said, adding however that the military option should not be discounted. For now, the government Ahmadinejad II remained rather quiet about its intentions.
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