The Hebrew state, represented at a conference organized this weekend in Bahrain, does not believe that the US restraint policy allows to revive the Agreement on Iranian nuclear power.
On the artificial island where the Four Seasons hotel stands in Manama, the capital of the little kingdom of Bahrain, the Israeli National Security Advisor, Eyal Hulata, is in friendly territory. In this high turn, which dominates the business district and the waters of the Persian Gulf, this former Mossad, the Israeli outdoor intelligence service, led, on Sunday, November 21, a rare public diplomacy exercise.
m. Hulata, doctor in amateur jazz physics and trumpet player with a 45-year-old voice, hardly tastes the light. But it is the lot of the so-called Abraham agreements, which have allowed the standardization of Israel’s relations in 2020 with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and, more confused, Sudan. To the dialogue of Manama, an annual forum organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a British Research Center, Mr. Hulata preached Firmness against Iran, with its Gulf and Great Partners. American common godfather.
Israel sees anxiously the recovery, scheduled for November 29 in Vienna, international negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. These dusk talks, engaged in April, remain at a stop since the election of the new Iranian President Ebrahim Raissi in June. During this interval, Israel reached, well-woundly, to hold on the bushel its dissension with its American ally, which seeks to save what can be the 2015 agreement. But the approachant maturity, their disagreements eventually see each other.
m. Hulata has expressed them in public, Sunday, saying the little faith that the Hebrew state in the deduction of the Democrat Administration against Tehran, an attitude supposed to facilitate an agreement. “Iran will not concede anything simply because we asked him kindly. That’s not how the regime behaves”, “he says.
A long time for Israel
The American withdrawal of the nuclear agreement, in 2018, prompted Tehran to accelerate its program. This is the result of the “maximum pressure” policy engaged by the Trump administration against Tehran, in close cooperation with Israel. For Israel, this Boomerang effect does not justify to alleviate the sanctions that still weigh, unchanged on Tehran, or put an end to clandestine operations against its nuclear facilities and attacks against its relays in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. “Over the years, there have been several pressure campaigns against Iran (…) and have been a success, to compel Iran to change its policies,” he says. Let the talks of Vienna fail, as Israel expects it, or succeed, the Hebrew state is part of a longer time. Tuesday, his Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, did not express anything less by saying that “even if the [nuclear] agreement is revived, Israel will not be held” to comply with his terms.
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