Interim deal has given Tehran sanctions relief without requiring a significant change to its nuclear program, officials charge...
Secretary of state, who only learned his grandparents were Jews in 2004, says he understands Israelis’ hesitancy to sign a deal... Haunting sketches show horrors of Hermit KingdomFew people make it out of North Korea's infamous prison camps alive, but Kim Kwang-il did, after six years. His sketches, published in a damning UN report on North Korean atrocities, show the hideous conditions and treatment that the UN high commissioner on human rights called "crimes against humanity."... Accord may grow into $30-billion partnership for Israel to become Jordan’s main supplier; deal with Turkey also possible... Obama’s Iran policy wins key point: Saudis drop its lead antagonist Prince BandarDEBKAfile Special Report February 19, 2014, 10:58 PM (GMT+02:00) The live wire of the Saudi royal house’s drive against President Barack Obama’s détente with Tehran has been dropped. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s National Security Adviser and Intelligence Director, has not been seen for more than a month. He was reported by debkafile’s US and Saudi sources Wednesday, Feb. 19, to have been removed from the tight policy-making circle in Riyadh. As recently as Tuesday, Netanyahu declared: “I would like to tell the world today that Iran has changed neither its aggressive policy nor its brutal character... Iran continues to support the Assad regime which is slaughtering its own people.” There has been no official word from Riyadh disclosing any change in Bandar’s status. Our sources report that the prince, a long-serving ambassador to the United States, vanished off Saudi and Middle East radar screens in mid-January, shortly before he was scheduled to visit Washington to arrange President Obama’s forthcoming trip to Riyadh in the last week of March. The Saudi intelligence chief crossed the Americans by supplying weapons and money to Syrian rebels belonging to Islamist militias – though not al Qaeda. He was the driving force behind the formation of the Islamic Front coalition, which last month beat the Free Syrian Army backed by Washington into the ground. Prince Mohammed is a favorite at the White House and a close friend of Secretary of State John Kerry and CIA Director John Brennan. The Saudi interior minister, by taking Bandar’s place at this important forum, may also be stepping into his shoes as intelligence chief – albeit without the formality of an official notice from Riyadh. Muslims in America says it has a network of 22 “villages” around the U.S., with headquarters at an encampment in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called Holy Islamberg, as WND reported in 2006. An investigative report at the time found neighbors of Islamberg were deeply concerned about military-style training taking place there and frustrated by an apparent lack of attention from federal authorities.... Washington said to request that Netanyahu nix approval of projects outside major blocs if sides agree to framework agreement... As negotiations kick off in Vienna, Deputy FM Abbas Araghchi dismisses world powers’ key requirement... White House defends negotiations in Vienna amid warnings by conservative groups; ballistic technology tops agenda...In Vienna, meanwhile, “the world” listened to Iran’s senior negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Afaqchi, who told reporters that his government would not discuss any issue related to the military aspects of its nuclear program, certainly not missiles. “The world” had not a word to say to challenge this statement. ~~ Debkafile |
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