So is there a deal or isn’t there a deal? So far it looks as if Iran has rejected the deal to export the lion’s share of its enriched uranium to Russia and France. This should elicit a sigh of relief in Jerusalem. As evidenced by remarks yesterday and today, Israeli officials were really worried Iran would actually agree to the deal offered by the P5+1, which in the end, will see Iran become a nuclear threshold state like Japan, with all the ingredients it needs to produce nuclear weapons and just waiting for a political decision to do so. Continue reading →