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The very man who inspired this blog makes a statement.\u00a0 \u201cKissinger: Return to Iran deal could spark Middle East nuclear arms race,\u201d<\/a> Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2021.\u00a0\u201cThe new US administration should not return to the spirit of the Iran deal, which could spark an arms race in the Middle East, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said Monday at a Jewish People Policy Institute online conference. He criticized the 2015 Iran deal, which President Donald Trump left in 2018. President-elect Joe Biden seeks to return to it if Iran agrees to comply again with the agreement\u2019s limitations on its nuclear program. \u201cWe should not fool ourselves,\u201d the 97-year-old diplomat, consultant and author said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that the spirit [of the Iran deal], with a time limit and so many escape clauses, will do anything other than bring nuclear weapons all over the Middle East and therefore create a situation of latent tension that sooner or later will break out.\u201d The current leaders in Iran \u201cdon\u2019t seem to find it possible to give up this combination of Islamist imperialism and threat,\u201d Kissinger said. \u201cThe test case is the evolution of nuclear capacities in Iran, if these can be avoided.\u201d \u201cI do not say we shouldn\u2019t talk to them,\u201d he added. Dennis Ross, a former adviser to presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, interviewed Kissinger at the JPPI farewell event for its founding director, Avinoam Bar-Yosef.\u00a0Ross asked Kissinger what he would advise Biden and his administration to do to take advantage of the Abraham Accords, in which four Arab states normalized ties with Israel. \u201cWe should not give up on what has recently been achieved in these agreements between the Arab world and the Israeli world,\u201d he said. \u201cI would tell the incoming administration that we are on a good course.\u201d The accords \u201chave opened a window of opportunity for a new Middle East,\u201d Kissinger said. \u201cArab countries understood that they could not survive in constant tension with parts of the West and with Israel, so they decided they had to take care of themselves.\u201d Normalizations with Israel show that the four states taking part \u201chave come to the conclusion that their national interests transcend their ideological interests,\u201d said the secretary of state and national security advisor to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s. \u201cSo they have decided, and Israel has advocated, that they should pursue their interests and come together, and they will take into account Arab concerns where they clash.\u201d That idea \u201chas worked out very well,\u201d Kissinger said, adding that he always opposed the idea of finding \u201call-out solutions\u201d to peace in the Middle East, advocating for the US \u201cto work out the solutions that we can because they can build on themselves.\u201d The Palestinians need to give up on their \u201cultimate aims\u201d and look for possible interim achievements, Kissinger said.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran: 33,000 People Die Annually Due To Air Pollution \u2013 OpEd,\u201d<\/a> Hassan Mahmoudi, Eurasia Review, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cClaims by Hamas about $22 million from Soleimani sparks outrage in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Michael Segall, Cleveland Jewish News, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran: Foreign Oil Firms Must Accept New Terms To Work In Country,\u201d<\/a> Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

From $40B to about $20B, per the governor of the Iranian Central Bank, Abdolnaser Hemmati.\u00a0 See \u201cU.S. Sanctions Halve Iran\u2019s Oil Revenues,\u201d<\/a> Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Cancels Pfizer Order After Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Bans Vaccines From UK And US Calling Them ‘Untrustworthy’,\u201d<\/a> Swarajya, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

What this story does not delve into is the relationship between Iran and Cuba.\u00a0 \u201cTrump administration puts Cuba on state-sponsor-of-terror list alongside Iran, Syria and North Korea,\u201d<\/a> AP, Market Watch, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cU.S. to Designate Iran-Backed Houthis in Yemen as Terrorist Group,\u201d<\/a> Sune Engel Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The very man who inspired this blog makes a statement.\u00a0 \u201cKissinger: Return to Iran deal could spark Middle East nuclear arms race,\u201d Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2021.\u00a0\u201cThe new US administration should not return to the spirit of the Iran deal, which could spark an arms race in the Middle East, former US secretary … <\/p>\n

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