On Tuesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to United States Congress members urging them to block any deal with Iran on its nuclear program and raise support for more sanctions against the nation.
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E3+3 & Iran negotiations: What’s on the horizon?
Last month the E3+3 (often referred to as the P5+1) met with Iran for another round of talks in the nuclear negotiations.
A dangerous game of symbolism we could do without
Nuclear weapons have become symbolic weapons, for display only. They are not weapons of war. They have played no part in the wars of the last few decades. When nations felt threatened, they did not look to their nuclear arsenals for a sense of security.
Britain’s Trident “Nuclear Deterrent”: Instruments of Armageddon
In this article, Jim McCluskey cites the report from the Trident Commission regarding Britain's deterrent's reliance on “American goodwill.”
Read the full article here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/britains-trident-nuclear-deterrent-instruments-of-armageddon/5428213
Britain and America: Drifting Apart?
Alex Stevenson, in this Politics.co.uk article, wrote about the relationship between the US and the UK, citing nuclear weapons as one of the connections. The article quotes Paul Ingram, Executive Director of BASIC, saying, “If there was a narrative that emerged that with limited resources the British need to focus their attention on capabilities that are more valuable to the Americans, that group-think could shift quite quickly.”
Iran Risks Rise as Stumbling Talks Push Sanctions Clamor
Paul Ingram, BASIC's Executive Director, was quoted in this Bloomberg article by Jonathan Tirone about the nuclear negotiations with Iran, saying “Failing to reach a conclusion by now was itself a high risk strategy that looks increasingly vulnerable to impatient legislators. The belief somehow that a little more time and patience will bring results is also hard to fathom. Now is a crucial moment.”
Will America’s political discord torpedo the Iran talks?
Continued Republican efforts to force further sanctions on Iran threaten the fragile coalition making progress on nuclear negotiations, which already show wear from an outdated zero-sum approach.
Iran’s Beef
“Where you stand depends on where you sit” is an old maxim of politics. Where Iranians sit is on a lot of history that inclines them to resent and mistrust America and Britain, and mistrust in particular anything that would compromise their freedom of action.