The World’s attention has been on the Middle East in recent weeks for many reasons other than Iran’s renegade nuclear program, alarming Israeli officials who have begun a quiet campaign of raising the issue with their colleagues among the P5+1 nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) who will once again enter into negotiations with Iran on the subject on 18 September. “Iran is the No. 1 threat, because an Iran with nuclear weapons changes history,” one Israeli official said, citing remarks made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in private meetings recently. “We don’t believe the Iranians should be able to exploit ISIS to take the pressure off of them, which is what they are trying to do.” Read More
