caused a great stir there last week that the U.S. has for the first time sent a senior diplomat to talks with Iran. Yaakov Katz now reports in the Jerusalem Post that we were celebrating too early, and perhaps still is anything but a turnaround is. More like a smart move.
government officials: U.S. talk to Iran of an attack to legitimize
The last talks, the U.S. has done with Iran, aim at a justification for a possible attack on to create Iranian nuclear facilities, the Ministry of Defence officials speculated on Sunday, as defense minister Ehud Barack to Washington for talks with senior government members departed.
Blackburn will travel to Washington and New York and hold talks with his counterpart Robert Gates, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
said government officials, it was likely that President Bush attend the meeting between Barack and Hadley would. On Wednesday, Barack will be flying at a brief meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to New York.
Barack's departure took place just after the Chief of General Staff of the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces Israeli military =] Lt.-Gen Gabi Ashkenazi on Sunday from a week-long Visiting the U.S. had returned as a guest Mullens. Ashkenazi held talks with Cheney, Hadley and other senior officials, which focused on the Iranian nuclear program.
"Right now run many strategic considerations from what Iran is concerned, but no one has decided what to do," said a high IDF officer who was involved in the talks between Israel and the U.S.. "We are still far from the time to bow to the military itself together over cards and plan an operation."
In recent weeks, Mullen had said publicly that he opposed military action against Iran, which has a third front for that could open just in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting U.S. is.
Barack talks in the U.S. find a good week after the U.S. sent its third highest diplomat to the EU negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program in Geneva instead.
"This way, they will say, they have tried everything," one official speculated. "This will increase America's chances of public support both at home and the support of the European countries that are now against military action to get."
diplomats had also speculated that the talks between Iran and the U.S. faced with the presidential elections here.
The IDF officer, according to the regular meetings between Israel and the U.S. in recent weeks - Mullen was in Israel in June - a sign of the strong links between the two countries and for the common interest, both in various regional issues such as Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria.
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