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Russian official: Israel is blackmailing Obama, attack on Iran imminent

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Israel will attack Iran this year if a new round of talks scheduled for April fail, a leading Russian newspaper has reported quoting a senior Russian diplomat.

Russian diplomats at the United Nations believe the strike against Iran is “a matter of when, not if”, said the Kommersant daily on Wednesday.

“The attack will be mounted before the end of this year. Israel is blackmailing [U.S. President Barack] Obama by confronting him with a dilemma: either he supports the war option or will lose the support [of the U.S. Jews],” a high-ranking official of the Russian Foreign Ministry told the paper ahead of the U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria on Monday.

After the meeting, the Russian diplomat said the attack could come earlier, any time after April when the six-nation group holds new talks with Iran.

The Kommersant quoted the diplomat as saying that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to warn Iran that the talks were a “last chance for Tehran” to avoid the attack.

The newspaper said a precise date and location for the talks was still being discussed. Iran on Tuesday confirmed that the talks would take place soon and said Turkey had been suggested as the venue.

The coming strike against Iran would save Syria from foreign military intervention, the unnamed Russian diplomat told the Kommersant.

“Americans realize that Israel will attack Iran and it would be too much to have two wars in the region,” the diplomat said explaining Washington’s consent to let U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan pursue his peace efforts in Syria.

The Hindu

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16 responses to “Russian official: Israel is blackmailing Obama, attack on Iran imminent”

  1. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    ALL nations with nuclear programs should dismantle their nukes… It is unfair to ask one nation not to have it when the neighbor next door harbors many. Any nation with a nuke should be considered a war criminal nation whether they intend to use them or not is irrelevant. 

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yah .. hard enough to get rid of the waste from the power-generation.

    2. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      Differentiation should be made between nations who are often threatened by all of their neighbors to be wiped off the map but who simply want to live in peace and be left alone and between those who threaten their neighbors with being wiped off the map and who refuse to allow the aforementioned nations to live in peace. Nukes are a nice insurance policy for the former and a red flag for the latter.

      1. dateam Avatar
        dateam

        Eblashko…..first of all that issue of wiping off the map was not stated in that manner translation was made to serve a purpose….if you want to talk threats there are 45 USA military bases surrounding Iran wouldn’t you want to protect yourself…..why should Israel have nukes and not have to admit it has them not sign npt? Shouldn’t humanity be allowed to advance….they have signed npt…npt is being manipulated ….. Isn’t a 26 year old kid in north Korea more of a threat WITH nukes??? Nuclear technology is the way the world is moving? If you have a population of over 70million and a country as big as that wouldn’t you think nuclear technology would be useful? The notion that certain countries think they can dictate what other countries can and can’t have is a contradiction democracy is it not? We all have kids when we raise do we tell them u can’t do anything unless uncle Sam and little Israel says you can? Or do we tell them shut up and do as your told when your told….it seems we in the middle east can not advance unless we are allowed to on the wests terms? The shah was allowed to do as he wanted he even started a nuclear program but that was ok because he was in bed with the USA and Israel and britain….finally this talk of nukes is a load of crap Israel can’t use them and Iran can’t use them it will effect all and everyone ….. It’s about control…..

        1. master09 Avatar
          master09

          USA does not threaten Iran outside of their Nuclear arms program, but Isreal has all the Arabs who daily want to destroy the people and the state and they openly talk about this and preach it to the children. North Korea has more  US,S KOREAN weapons at its door than you can imagine….

          .The notion that certain countries think they can dictate what other countries can and can’t have is a contradiction democracy is it not?
          Yes why but I ask that you dig dipper than just ,,,      “dictate what other countries can and can’t have” much bigger than just that……

  2. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    ALL nations with nuclear programs should dismantle their nukes… It is unfair to ask one nation not to have it when the neighbor next door harbors many. Any nation with a nuke should be considered a war criminal nation whether they intend to use them or not is irrelevant. 

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yah .. hard enough to get rid of the waste from the power-generation.

    2. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      Differentiation should be made between nations who are often threatened by all of their neighbors to be wiped off the map but who simply want to live in peace and be left alone and between those who threaten their neighbors with being wiped off the map and who refuse to allow the aforementioned nations to live in peace. Nukes are a nice insurance policy for the former and a red flag for the latter.

      1. dateam Avatar
        dateam

        Eblashko…..first of all that issue of wiping off the map was not stated in that manner translation was made to serve a purpose….if you want to talk threats there are 45 USA military bases surrounding Iran wouldn’t you want to protect yourself…..why should Israel have nukes and not have to admit it has them not sign npt? Shouldn’t humanity be allowed to advance….they have signed npt…npt is being manipulated ….. Isn’t a 26 year old kid in north Korea more of a threat WITH nukes??? Nuclear technology is the way the world is moving? If you have a population of over 70million and a country as big as that wouldn’t you think nuclear technology would be useful? The notion that certain countries think they can dictate what other countries can and can’t have is a contradiction democracy is it not? We all have kids when we raise do we tell them u can’t do anything unless uncle Sam and little Israel says you can? Or do we tell them shut up and do as your told when your told….it seems we in the middle east can not advance unless we are allowed to on the wests terms? The shah was allowed to do as he wanted he even started a nuclear program but that was ok because he was in bed with the USA and Israel and britain….finally this talk of nukes is a load of crap Israel can’t use them and Iran can’t use them it will effect all and everyone ….. It’s about control…..

        1. master09 Avatar
          master09

          USA does not threaten Iran outside of their Nuclear arms program, but Isreal has all the Arabs who daily want to destroy the people and the state and they openly talk about this and preach it to the children. North Korea has more  US,S KOREAN weapons at its door than you can imagine….

          .The notion that certain countries think they can dictate what other countries can and can’t have is a contradiction democracy is it not?
          Yes why but I ask that you dig dipper than just ,,,      “dictate what other countries can and can’t have” much bigger than just that……

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Really, there are not enough Jews in the USA to blackmail Obama with. Stupid statement.

  4. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Really, there are not enough Jews in the USA to blackmail Obama with. Stupid statement.

  5. Kanon Avatar
    Kanon

    is not necesary millions of jews on america… just the powerful group of millionary economic groups is enought, the blakmailing is not comming from the jew peolple.. but from the economic powers that support the campaing of Omaba.

  6. jonathan gomez Avatar
    jonathan gomez

    is not necesary millions of jews on america… just the powerful group of millionary economic groups is enought, the blakmailing is not comming from the jew peolple.. but from the economic powers that support the campaing of Omaba.

  7. master09 Avatar
    master09

    First some are saying if Isreal have WMD why can’t IRAN.
    Well first it is not just the west that do not want Iran to not have this but the ARABS who are demanding this not to happen.

    I have said this before, if Iran gets the bomb than 8 other countries will demand to have as well. So if one country gets it than we should give a couple to every country in the world. Would be a good thing for the Arabs to have them yes, they already say what they would do with them not just to each other but to the west…….. So for people who say Isreal has why can’t we well think about this, let your thinking go outside the box a little……
    Lebanon should have a couple, they would carry them on their waste just incase someone parked on their space…..or looked at them…….

  8. master09 Avatar
    master09

    First some are saying if Isreal have WMD why can’t IRAN.
    Well first it is not just the west that do not want Iran to not have this but the ARABS who are demanding this not to happen.

    I have said this before, if Iran gets the bomb than 8 other countries will demand to have as well. So if one country gets it than we should give a couple to every country in the world. Would be a good thing for the Arabs to have them yes, they already say what they would do with them not just to each other but to the west…….. So for people who say Isreal has why can’t we well think about this, let your thinking go outside the box a little……
    Lebanon should have a couple, they would carry them on their waste just incase someone parked on their space…..or looked at them…….

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