Netanyahu Meets Obama

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Netanyahu Meets Obama

Barack Obama on Sunday told the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu that his country did not want war but that it would attack Iran, if that was the only option to stop the Islamic republic from acquiring nuclear weapons. Obama is expected on Monday to convince Netanyahu to tone down some of the members of his cabinet, who advocate the idea of an attack on Iran this spring, which would complicate the situation for America too, since it is in an election year, and a war in the Middle East would have a devastating impact, especially when warring against Iran.
Israel is pressuring Obama to speak of the “red lines” Iran must cross in order to trigger a military response, which is highly unlikely to happen, as Obama is attempting to persuade him to abandon “loose talk of war,” which is playing into the hands of the Iranians.
Obama will tell Netanyahu that though America is committed to assuring the security of Israel, it would not want to be dragged into a war. The United States has advocated the economic sanctions against Iran, and has even implemented a few, including against the central bank of Iran, in hopes that this would destabilize the Iranian economy and dissuade the leaders from creating a nuclear bomb.
The Americans believe, based on the intelligence from the field, that though Iran may have the components to begin a nuclear weapon, they have not decided to do so, while Israel fears that while sanctions are expected to produce results on Iranian economy it may be too late to implement an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The White House has been attempting to convince the Israelis that an attack on Iranian facilities would only slow Tehran down, while setting the entire Middle East, and possible the world, on fire. The Iranian nuclear facilities are believed to be deep in the mountains, where the missiles can not penetrate.
During the meeting with the Israeli American leaders at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama did not directly call on the Israelis to stand down and abandon the plan to attack Iran, and reiterated the right of Israel to defend itself.
It is also expected that Obama make little progress in convincing Netanyahu to accept more peace talks and to wait for the sanctions to produce effects. Netanyahu is not among those who publicly advocated the pre-emptive strike, but members of the cabinet in Tel Aviv dismissed the warnings of the American military that a pre-emptive strike could fail.
While affirming that the military option is still on the table, Obama said that it was the last resort, not the next option.
Israel has not set a date to the attack on Iran, but expressed readiness to do so, and the military advisers believe that it should be any time in spring, so that the advancement of the Iranian research be stopped before it is too late.
Last month, Israel said it would not let the Americans know when such an attack would happen, so that America may not be accused that it knew about it and that it did not do anything to stop it.
Meanwhile, in Vienna, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that on Monday that the organization did not have any way to confirm and be sure that Iran does not have a military aim for its nuclear program. The only thing that the international body can be sure of is that since late last year Tehran has tripled monthly output of higher-grade enriched uranium.
On Monday, Japan announced that it is close to a deal with the United States on cutting Iranian oil imports, as part of the program to squeeze the Iranian economy by means of international sanctions.
Imposing such sanctions without a UN resolution on them is more difficult, as countries like Turkey or China do not recognize the authority of Washington to do so. UN has imposed four rounds of international sanctions on Iran, with little effect.

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