{"id":1987,"date":"2017-11-29T04:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/israel-saudi-arabia-egypt-pushed-us-to-bomb-iran-prior-to-nuclear-deal-kerry\/"},"modified":"2017-11-29T04:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:42:43","slug":"israel-saudi-arabia-egypt-pushed-us-to-bomb-iran-prior-to-nuclear-deal-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/israel-saudi-arabia-egypt-pushed-us-to-bomb-iran-prior-to-nuclear-deal-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt pushed US to bomb Iran prior to nuclear deal: Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The former US secretary of state, John Kerry, said Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt urged Washington to \u2018bomb Iran\u2019 before the conclusion of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world countries, with Tel Aviv pushing harder than the rest.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tSpeaking at a forum in Washington on Tuesday, Kerry, one of the architects of the multinational nuclear pact, defended the international document and criticized the new US administration for seeking to undermine it, Israeli media reported, presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEach of them said to me, you have to bomb Iran, it\u2019s the only thing they are going to understand,\u201d he said, referring to former Saudi monarch King Abdullah, ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNetanyahu was genuinely agitating toward action,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut that was \u2018a trap,\u2019 he said, noting that the same Arab countries would have publicly criticized the United States if it had chosen to go for military action against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

\n\tKerry said the proposals came to him when he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a post he filled from 2009 until early 2013.<\/p>\n

\n\tIran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council \u2013 the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China \u2013 plus Germany signed the agreement on July 14, 2015 and started implementing it on January 16, 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran undertook to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, US President Donald Trump, who took office a year after the deal took effect, has vociferously opposed the deal, calling it the worst contract Washington has ever entered into, and threatening to \u2018tear up\u2019 the accord.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe refused to certify Iran\u2019s commitment to the deal last month and gave Congress 60 days to decide whether the country would re-impose sanctions against Tehran.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was the best deal the US could get,\u201d Kerry, however, said as quoted by Times of Israel. \u201cWithout exaggeration, the likelihood is very high that we would have been in a conflict,\u201d without the agreement, he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tKerry added that Trump had \u2018polluted the water\u2019 of legitimate diplomacy by vocally criticizing the deal during his election campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat was a blatant over-simplistic political appeal to the American Jewish community \u2026 because most of those people hadn\u2019t read the agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tExcept for the US under Trump, the other parties to the accord have all vowed to stay committed to the deal and urged Washington not to withdraw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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