Behind the Diplomatic Conflict Over Iran Nuclear Negotiations. Israel Campaigns Against Agreement!

• “The ultimate product of Iran’s gas centrifuge facilities would be highly enriched uranium hexafluoride, a gas that cannot be used to make a weapon.” – Cinton Bastin, American nuclear weapons expert 
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• Behind the Diplomatic Conflict over Iran Nuclear Negotiations. Israel Campaigns against Agreement! 
  by Richard Becker, http://www.globalresearch.ca/ 
  What is really behind the fierce diplomatic conflict that has erupted over the Iran nuclear negotiations? What are the motivations of the Israeli and French governments in opposing an interim agreement that would require significant concessions by Iran in exchange for some easing of harsh economic sanctions?
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  Several rounds of sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Union and the UN Security Council have inflicted severe damage on Iran’s economy and widespread hardship on the Iranian people. The U.S. and its allies have tried to justify the sanctions by claiming that they are aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The Iranian government has repeatedly asserted that its nuclear program is for civilian use only and that it has no intention of building nuclear bombs.
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  Netanyahu went on an all-out campaign against the agreement.
  On Nov. 9, it appeared that an interim agreement was about to be signed in Geneva, Switzerland between the “P5+1” and Iran. The “P5+1” are the Security Council permanent members—U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China—plus Germany.  While the details of the agreement have not been made public, it reportedly called for Iran to limit or halt its uranium enrichment for six months in exchange for a “very limited” and “reversible” easing of sanctions. The plan called for negotiations over the following six months to reach a permanent agreement that would, among other conditions, subject Iran’s nuclear program to intensified international inspections. Such an agreement would make military uses of nuclear technology virtually impossible.
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  That an agreement was indeed close was indicated by the presence in Geneva of the foreign ministers of the countries involved, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. At the last minute, however, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius unexpectedly blocked the deal, on the grounds that it supposedly didn’t contain enough concessions from Iran. Fabius’s veto is part of a concerted drive by France, a former colonizing power in the Middle East, to reassert its influence in the region at a time of widening divisions between the U.S. on the one hand and Israel and Saudi Arabia on the other.
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  Negotiations are set to resume on Nov. 20.
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  Israel campaigns against agreement
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