Israel ready to act as western powers sign deal with Iran

Israeli military experts, political analysts and reporters are all discussing the nuclear deal signed by the 5+1 group (the US, the UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) with Iran, Vestnik Kavkaza correspondent in Israel Pyotr Lyukimson believes.

According to the agreement, Tehran will be allowed access to $4.2 billion in funds frozen as part of the financial sanctions imposed on Iran over suspicions that its nuclear program is aimed at producing an atomic bomb. In return, Iran has agreed to halt enriching uranium up to 20 percent for six months, but will continue to enrich it to 5 percent.

Iran’s current stockpile of 20 percent-enriched uranium will also be diluted as part of the agreement. Moreover, Tehran will build no nuclear centrifuges or seek to expand its nuclear facilities, agreeing to halt the construction of a reactor in Arak for the next six months.

The deal has already been condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. "The world is becoming more and more dangerous, because the world's most dangerous regime has made a decisive step to produce the most dangerous weapons on the planet," Netanyahu said.

According to the head of the Israeli cabinet, the world powers are ignoring the resolution of the UN Security Council and lifting the international sanctions against the Iran, while Iran is ready to make only symbolic compromises.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman shares the prime minister's approach; he believes the deal is favourable to Iran, but is harmful not only to Israel, but also to the Saudi Arabia and other countries of the Persian Gulf.

Some experts believe that the countries that feel threatened by the Iranian nuclear programme, such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and probably Turkey, may form some kind of a coalition in order to launch a strike on Iran.

This supposition was recently confirmed after Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin-Sultan's recent visit to Israel, where he held talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande.