Notice Netanyahu’s references to “congenital cheating” in Iran:

„This is not a personal issue now between me and the president… We do have a difference of opinion. This is a difference of policies, not a clash of personalities….Iran is shown to be completely distrustful. It’s not a country that you can place your trust in. And it’s not a country that you are going to resolve its congenital cheating– you’re just not going to resolve it by placing more inspectors there.“

Daraufhin haben die Iraner gefordert, genauso konkret auf die Aufhebung der Sanktionen und Garantien dafür einzugehen, so Lawrow. „Unsere westlichen Partner waren nicht dazu bereit, aber sie feilschten noch mehrere Tage lang mit den Unterhändlern und den Journalisten und versuchten (…), für sie notwendige Details zu erfahren, und vermieden es in jeder Weise, die vom Iran angeforderten Details anzugeben. Darin liegt eigentlich die Ursache für die Verzögerung“, sagte Lawrow.

Everyone is talking about Tom Friedman’s interview with President Obama Saturday, published in the New York Times today. Meeting with the official press, Obama states his firm commitment to a new relationship with Iran even as he says that he was personally hurt by the attacks on him for not being supportive of Israel.

(4.April) Die von Saudi-Arabien geführte Militärallianz hatte in der Nacht wieder zahlreiche Luftangriffe geflogen. Präsident Abd Abbu Mansour Hadi war schon zuvor nach Saudi-Arabien geflohen.

(4.April) Die von Saudi-Arabien geführte Militärallianz macht humanitäre Hilfe für Jemen davon abhängig, ob die Zeit dafür reif ist.

(5.April)

Unterstützen Sie die militärische Intervention der Saudis im Jemen?

Die Militärintervention ist passiert. Wir fürchten, dass die Kämpfe im Jemen eskalieren und sich auch nach Saudiarabien ausbreiten könnten.

Wie kann der Konflikt eingedämmt werden? Indem man den Iran und Saudiarabien an einen Tisch bringt?

Das ist nicht sehr realistisch.

Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the United Nations said Saturday that Russia’s call for a humanitarian pause in Yemen was aimed at hindering a draft resolution by Gulf Arab states and Jordan that is being negotiated by the Security Council.

„As of now it [the Saudi-led operation] has no international legal foundation. Of course, we were a bit disappointed, to say the least, by the fact that the operation was launched even without any consultations either in the [UN] Security Council or via bilateral channels, and that our partners – we value our relations with Saudi Arabia, with other members of this coalition, that they came to the Security Council post factum and began asking, again post factum, to approve what they had [already] started,“ Lavrov said.

(29.März) The pro-democracy coalition in Egypt assures popular will shall ultimately triumph over illegitimate coups d‘état.

At a gathering of Arab leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh this weekend, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi read a letter from Vladimir Putin. „We support Arab nations in their effort to ensure a safe future and urge them to resolve all emerging challenges peacefully without any foreign involvement,“ the Russian president‘s message read, according to Sputnik News.

Er sagte der New York Times, es gebe keine effektivere Option, um den Iran von Nuklearwaffen abzuhalten, als die diplomatische Initiative und das vereinbarte Rahmenabkommen. In dem Interview, das am Sonntag veröffentlicht wurde, bezeichnete Obama die Atomvereinbarung als „einmalige Chance im Leben“.

„We know that a military strike or a series of military strikes can set back Iran’s nuclear program for a period of time — but almost certainly will prompt Iran to rush towards a bomb, will provide an excuse for hard-liners inside of Iran to say, ‘This is what happens when you don’t have a nuclear weapon: America attacks.’“

It was Elie Wiesel, one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s great admirers, who once said, in another context: “The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s indifference”. This is the emerging nature of the prime minister’s current relations with the Obama administration and with liberal public opinion in America: instead of sparking anger, Netanyahu is being increasingly ignored.

With the Likud Party electoral victory in Israel, the Republican Party is on a roll, having won two major elections in a row. The first was winning control of the U.S. Congress last fall. The second is the victory by the Republicans’ de facto party leader Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s recent election. As the Israeli Prime Minister puts together a coalition with other parties “in the national camp,” as he describes them, meaning the ultra-nationalist parties of Israel, it will be a coalition that today’s Republicans would feel right at home in.

The common thread linking Republicans and Netanyahu’s “national camp” is a belief of each in their own country’s “exceptionalism,” with a consequent right of military intervention wherever and whenever their “Commander in Chief” orders it, as well as the need for oppressive laws to suppress dissent.

In a message posted to Facebook on 31 March, Ms Bachman suggested that the US president is intentionally hurting the US people in the Iranian nuclear negotiations.

Conservative media figures are lashing out against tentative framework for a historic deal on Iran‘s nuclear program as a „surrender to Tehran,“ — ignoring the widespread approval among diplomats, foreign relations and nuclear weapons policy experts of the agreement between the United States and five other nations aimed at limiting Iranian nuclear ambitions.

„Dieser Deal ist nicht ausreichend. Er gibt den Atominspektoren nicht das Recht, überall und zu jeder Zeit im Iran nachzuschauen, und der Iran ist ein großes Land“, so Asculai. Der Iran könne irgendwo tätig werden.

Spanischer Militärbericht: Israel tötete im Januar 2015 bewusst Soldat der U.N.I.F.I.L.

“I’m afraid, after this statement the doors of the Prague Castle are closed for Ambassador Schapiro,” Zeman told Parlamentni Listy webportal on Saturday. Prague Castle is the president’s official residence and office.