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After the clarification call: the head of the Mossad will go to Washington to brief Congress against the nuclear agreement - voila! news

2022-08-28T12:09:57.932Z


Barnea, who pushes the most extreme line on the Iranian issue within the Israeli government, will appear before the Intelligence Committee of the Senate and the US House of Representatives. This, after he attacked the Biden administration, and held a clarification conversation with Lapid following his words. A political official stated that there are no tensions between the two: "the differences in style would have been fixed"


After the clarification call: the head of the Mossad will go to Washington to brief Congress against the nuclear deal

Barnea, who pushes the most extreme line on the Iranian issue within the Israeli government, will appear before the Intelligence Committee of the Senate and the US House of Representatives.

This, after he attacked the Biden administration, and held a clarification conversation with Lapid following his words.

A political official stated that there are no tensions between the two: "the differences in style would have been fixed"

Barak Ravid

08/28/2022

Sunday, August 28, 2022, 3:00 p.m

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The head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea, will go to Washington next week for talks on the nuclear deal with Iran.

A senior political official said that during the visit, Barnea is expected to appear before the Intelligence Committee of the Senate and the American House of Representatives and express his position against the American return to the nuclear agreement.

why is it important

  • The head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea, is the factor pushing the most extreme line on the Iranian issue within the Israeli government.

    Last Thursday, during a press briefing, Barna sharply criticized the Biden administration's policy regarding the nuclear deal.

  • Barnea also deliberately avoided briefing reporters on the fact that the United States has recently hardened its positions in negotiations with the Iranians on the nuclear deal, partly due to Israeli pressure.

    Barnea claimed that he refused to say this because he is not familiar with the details.

  • During the weekend, Prime Minister Lapid and senior officials in his office held clarifying talks with Barna and his people, expressed their dissatisfaction with the head of the Mossad's harsh message against the United States and emphasized the need to coordinate messages on the Iranian issue.

"The style gaps have been fixed".

Head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea (Photo: Reuven Castro)

in the news center

  • A political source said that the trip of the head of the Mossad was scheduled a long time ago, and is not an urgent trip that was decided on in recent days.

    He noted that the trip is part of Israel's attempt to influence the wording of the agreement that is taking shape.

  • According to the political source, the appearance of the head of the Mossad in a closed hearing of the Congressional Intelligence Committee was not intended to attack the administration in the ears of elected members of the House of Representatives or senators, and Israel is not trying to act behind the back of the White House.

  • "At the moment there is no agreement with the Iranians. For more than a year we have been trying to prevent a return to the agreement. Even if there is an agreement, we removed quite a few things from it because of the attention we obtained in the Biden administration. Israel has influence, but it is limited. We are in the midst of excavations," said the political official.

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Prime Minister Lapid's office was surprised by the Mossad head's attack on the Biden administration and demanded clarification

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Behind the Scenes

  • The political source noted that Prime Minister Lapid spoke with the head of the Mossad in Barnea twice during the weekend.

    According to him there is no conflict or tensions between Lapid and Barnea.

    "There are no differences in substance between Lapid and the head of the Mossad. The differences in style have been corrected," said the political official.

what are they saying

  • "We are making a coordinated effort to make sure that the Americans and Europeans understand the dangers involved in the agreement. Our political directive, from day one, is to fight against the agreement with all our might, but without harming the strategic relations with the United States, and without harming their attention to our arguments," said Prime Minister Lapid At the press briefing today.

  • Lapid stated that Israel must not repeat the way former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behaved with the Obama administration in 2015.

    "We are paying to this day for the damage caused by Netanyahu's speech to Congress, as a result of which the American administration stopped the dialogue with us and it is not possible for Israel to introduce amendments to the agreement," said Lapid.

  • According to him, Israel's different behavior now made it possible to achieve achievements against the United States and the European powers.

    "Following the dialogue with us, Biden decided not to lift the sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and prevented further concessions to Iran," noted Lapid.

  • The Prime Minister said that Israel made it clear to the Americans that it will not depend on the decisions of Iran or the decisions of the powers and will not be bound by the agreement and it will not limit its actions.

  • "The IDF and the Mossad received instructions from us to prepare themselves for any scenario.

    We will be ready to act to maintain Israel's security.

    The Americans understand this, the world understands this, Israeli society should also know this," stressed Lapid.

"The dialogue with us prevented further concessions."

Lapid (photo: Reuven Castro)

The big picture

  • The political party claimed that the election system does not affect the conduct of Prime Minister Lapid on the Iranian issue.

    According to him, Lapid will brief opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu on the matter in the coming days.

  • "The fact that there is legitimacy here for parties like Ben Gabir and his partners is startling. I don't see a government in which there is a senior minister and cabinet member Ben Gabir that receives a tenth of the attention of the Americans and Europeans that a government like ours receives. So this has an impact on national security," said the political official.

What next

  • The political source indicated that Lapid and President Biden are expected to talk on the phone later this week.

    According to the political source, the White House made it clear that there is no objection or reservation on the part of Biden to talk to Lapid and that a conversation will take place at the appropriate point in terms of the dialogue between the countries on the Iranian issue.

  • With regard to a possible meeting between Lapid and Biden on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York, the political source noted that it is still unclear whether the meeting will be possible in terms of Biden's and Lapid's schedules.

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Source: walla

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