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Netanyahu: Major powers are making concessions for Iran

June 29, 2015 at 11:59 am

Two days before the deadline set for negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it seems that there is a clear retreat by major Western powers regarding the red lines that they had set for themselves, and that these states are ready to make significant concessions to Iran.

At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said: “We are seeing in front of us a clear retreat from the red lines that were set by major powers recently and publicly.”

He added that there is no reason to sign a bad agreement with Iran and there is still a chance to reverse the course.

Netanyahu said that the whole world expressed its shock at the terrorist attacks that occurred lately in three countries but it ignores Iran’s support for Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria that commits massacres on a similar scale every day.

Negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme entered a critical phase on Sunday, three days before the deadline set for reaching an historic agreement on a crisis that has stained international relations for the past 12 years.

On Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif began the latest round of marathon negotiations in Vienna, Switzerland. The two officials held a meeting during which they agreed that there is still a lot of hard work to do.

The world’s powers in the P5+1 group (the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France and Germany) want to make sure that Iran’s nuclear programme does not have hidden military purposes and will not lead to the development of a nuclear bomb in return for lifting the international sanctions that are strangling Iran’s economy.