Iran nuclear deal: The role of the Israel lobby & pressure groups in derailing an agreement -- RT World News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : There should be "no deal with Iran unless the hostages are free", Rosen said.
45% : Although Rosen quickly chose to end his hunger strike, others seemed to be picking up the torch, with an Iranian-Brit held in Iran, Anoosheh Ashoori, hitting the headlines by taking up a hunger strike on the same day that Rosen ended his.
44% : "I'm sure the Israel lobby would do anything possible to increase tensions between Iran and the United States to prevent any sort of de-escalation, let alone rapprochement, but how effective they are in this regard and what role such a person [Barry Rosen] would have and whether such a person has an influence I don't know."
43% : On January 24, it was revealed in a Reuters exclusive that the United States delegation in Vienna is proposing an additional condition on Tehran in order to revive the Iran nuclear deal of 2015.
43% : Rosen had announced over social media that he would begin a hunger strike marking 41 years since his release from Iranian detention on January 20, 1981, in solidarity with dozens of "Americans and Westerners" who, he stated, are being held hostage in Iran as "bargaining chips".
42% : With the urgency now building, the prisoner issue is hitting the headlines, with French President Emmanuel Macron making a plea for the "immediate release" of French detainees in Iran, during a phone call with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
41% : Although it would seem that Rosen, a former hostage in Iran and US diplomat, had started a humanitarian campaign out of the blue to link the prisoner issue to the nuclear deal talks, what has largely been left out of the conversation is his role as senior advisor to the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) group.
37% : The outcome of the indirect Vienna talks between the United States and Iran will not only determine whether Tehran and the West will continue on their current collision course, but will also indicate the strength of the Israel lobby as well as pressure groups like UANI in Washington.
34% : According to Mohammed Marandi "the Israelis and Americans both know that Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon" and that Iran could have developed the weapon, if they wanted it, long ago.
34% : Similarly, Israel has also threatened to strike Iran if the country isn't prevented from developing nuclear weapons.
33% : But what seemed to be the main issue of the US and Israel aside from Iran allegedly seeking to acquire nuclear weapons
32% : In response to this, Marandi told me that "Threats in general are a violation of international law and the Israelis and Americans have carried out sabotage and murder, in Iran, all of these acts are terrorism, but that's the nature of the United States, the Western empire and the Israeli regime."
31% : Iran denies the charge that it holds "political prisoners", as alleged by Western media and governments, whilst the likes of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have continuously criticized the Islamic Republic for its imprisonment of Iranian dual-nationals on the grounds that they were wrongfully detained and/or suffered human rights abuses.
31% : Tehran still describes it as a terrorist group.
28% : The likelihood of such Israeli or US strikes on Iran is debatable, with even Israeli defense officials telling The New York Times that this is not likely, but most certainly the Israeli side is not backing down in its quest to isolate Iran for strategic purposes.
17% : First and foremost, the United States and its number one cheerleader for Iran sanctions Israeli PM Netanyahu, who accused Iran of violating the deal and heading towards a nuclear weapon.
12% : Nephew is notorious for being an advocate of hardline sanctioning tactics against Iran, and his presence as part of the Biden administration's delegation caused a negative reaction from Tehran.

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