US President Barack Obama has opened the door for diplomacy with Iran in large measure to œsave Israel” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu™s hard-line policies have increasingly isolated the Zionist regime, a US writer says.
In his address to the annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Obama said Washington prefers a diplomatic solution to its disputes with Iran over its nuclear program.
As much as it appears that it works against Israel™s interest, Obama™s focus on diplomacy is in part an effort to save Israel from Netanyahu who prefers military action, Mark Glenn told Press TV on Wednesday.
Glenn is a journalist and co-founder of Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, an open forum that seeks to unite both Muslims and Christians and resist the forces of Zionism.
œIn the bigger picture it™s actually being done to save Israel, and particularly to save Israel form Benjamin Netanyahu, because he is so irrational and because he refuses to go the route of diplomacy he is isolating Israel diplomatically, isolating Israel politically,” Glenn noted.
Glenn said smarter elements within Israel understand that if something is not done to œrehabilitate Israel™s image”, Israel will be œparalyzed.”
œCountries around the world would no longer do business with her [Israel]. Countries around the world would begin honoring extradition requests for Israelis who™ve been accused of war crimes.”
However, Glenn acknowledged that realistically, US foreign policy is not going to change towards Iran.
œIran™s nuclear program is not what is at issue; what is at issue is that Iran is an independent nation, it refuses to be subservient to American, Israeli and Western interests.”
Hours later Obama™s speech at the UN, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, urged his American counterpart to reject “the short-sighted interest of warmongering pressure groups” if he wants “to manage differences” with Tehran.
“Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine, and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions,” Rouhani declared.
The Israeli premier, who has repeatedly called on the US to attack Iran, has been angered at the prospect of a diplomatic resolution to Iran™s nuclear issue.
œWe will not be fooled by half-measures that merely provide a smoke screen for Iran™s continual pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told reporters in Tel Aviv hours before Rouhani addressed the General Assembly. œAnd the world should not be fooled either.”
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