Daily Briefing: IS AN IRAN DEAL IMMINENT?

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PM Lapid Holds Briefing For Foreign Correspondents:  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aug. 24, 2022 — PM Lapid: Israel is not against any agreement. We are against this agreement, because it is a bad one. Because it cannot be accepted as it is written right now. We have made it clear to everyone: if a deal is signed, it does not obligate Israel. We will act to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state.

US Officials Said Seeking to Calm Israeli Fears, Insisting Iran Deal ‘Not Imminent’:  TOI staff, Times of Israel, Aug. 20, 2022 — US officials have in recent days told Israel’s leadership that a new nuclear deal is not imminent and that Washington has not agreed to any new concessions to Iran in order to reach an accord, the Walla news site reported Saturday, citing senior US officials. But the report said Jerusalem has not been soothed by such messaging.
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Israel Resigned To New Iran Nuclear Deal over Its Objections:  Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor, Aug. 23, 2022

Iran Is Already Nuclearized, So Why Do We Need A Deal?:  Prof. Eyal Zisser, Israel Hayom,  Aug. 21, 2022:  Jerusalem Post, Aug. 24, 2022

Why the US Airstrike on Iranian Forces In Syria Matters – Analysis
Seth J. Frantzman
Jerusalem Post, Aug. 24, 2022

Iran Gloats, America Plots, but Even A Nuclear Deal Will Not Tame Tehran:  Simon Tisdall, The Guardian, Aug. 21, 2022 — If any one man is to blame for gleeful Iranian crowing over the attack on Salman Rushdie, it is the country’s 83-year-old supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The black-turbaned ayatollah’s bigoted, blinkered outlook has been poisoning the well of Iranian politics and society since he first took power in 1989.