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From PressTV
Israel not bound by Vienna outcome: Netanyahu
In the wake of the conclusion of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the Tel Aviv regime will not “be bound by this deal.”
“Israel is not bound by this deal with Iran, because Iran continues to seek our destruction,” said Netanyahu in reaction to the final statement of the marathon talks in Vienna on Tuesday.
Israel has for months been engaged in attempts to block the efforts for the conclusion of nuclear talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China – plus Germany.
Netanyahu, who was speaking in English, said what happened at the United Nations building in Vienna was “a stunning historic mistake,” adding it gives Iran “every incentive not to change.”
He again repeated his previous claims that Iran would continue to seek nuclear weapons.
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From Ynet News
UK’s Hammond: Israel wants permanent state of stand-off with Iran
British foreign secretary to visit Israel to discuss nuclear deal with Netanyahu; tells UK parliament that Israel would not have been satisfied with any kind of deal with Tehran.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will arrive in Israel on Wednesday evening to discuss the nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers the previous day with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Earlier Wednesday, Hammond told parliament that Israel would not have been satisfied with any kind of nuclear deal with Iran, dismissing criticism of the agreement struck between Tehran and foreign powers.
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From The Times of Israel
Hollande calls on Iran to help in Syrian conflict
French president warns world must be ‘extremely vigilant’ on Tehran’s use of nuclear deal sanctions relief windfall
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande has called on Iran for help in the Syrian conflict during a Bastille Day speech in which he praised a landmark Iranian nuclear agreement.
Hollande said the deal shows the “world is moving forward” and that “Iran must show that it is ready to help us end the (Syrian) conflict.”
But Hollande also said that world powers must carefully watch how Iran uses the billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions it gets in exchange for curbing its nuclear program.
“Now Iran has a bigger financial capacity, we need to be extremely vigilant on what Iran will be,” Hollande added in the televised speech.
Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told newspaper Le Monde that the Iran deal was “sufficiently robust” to last 10 years.
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The Daily Mail
#ThisIsACoup: Greeks react with fury at new €86bn EU bailout deal, accusing Germany of using WW2-style tactics to condemn their country to years of harsh austerity
- Eurozone leaders spent all night thrashing out the Greek bailout agreement
- European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said there is no longer any risk of Greece crashing out the euro, adding ‘Grexit has gone’
- German leader Angela Merkel said trust with Greece ‘needs to be rebuilt’
- But she did add that she backed today’s agreement with ‘full conviction’
- Greeks have taken to Twitter to condemn the bailout, using #thisisacoup
Greeks have reacted to the news of today’s bailout deal with fury, saying the tough reforms agreed to by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras condemned the country to ‘misery, humiliation and slavery’.
Following marathon overnight talks between 19 eurozone leaders, Greece caved in and accepted a range of reforms to secure a deal worth up to €86 billion – the country’s third bailout in five years.
While striking a deal was considered vital to securing Greece’s future within the euro and preventing the country’s economy collapsing, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed to rush key measures on tax hikes, pension reforms, and a debt repayment fund through parliament.
The hard left Athens leader – who was elected on an anti-austerity platform – faced an immediate backlash over the deal, with many Greeks furious at Tsipras’ reluctantly accepting even tougher reforms than those categorically rejected by citizens at last week’s bailout referendum.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu, Obama have contentious conversation about Iran deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a contentious phone call after the major world powers achieved a deal with Iran on its nuclear program.
Netanyahu in a statement said he raised two objections to the deal in the phone call on Tuesday.
“One, the agreement allows Iran to develop extensive capabilities that will serve it in arming itself with nuclear weapons whether at the end of the period of the agreement in another 10-15 years, or earlier if it violates the agreement,” the statement said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu: Iran deal a ‘stunning historic mistake’
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted the accord between Iran and world powers limiting Iran’s nuclear program, calling it a “stunning historic mistake.”
Netanyahu, who has vehemently opposed the accord since negotiations between the parties began in 2013, said Tuesday in Jerusalem that “the world is a much more dangerous place today than it was yesterday” due to the agreement.
The deal would remove international sanctions on Iran in exchange for Iran freezing and storing much of its nuclear infrastructure, ridding much of its stockpile of enriched uranium and converting its nuclear facilities.
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From PressTV
Israel releases Palestinian lawmaker after year in prison
Israeli authorities have released Palestinian parliament member Riyad Mahmoud Raddad from detention after a year of imprisonment.
Amina Tawil, a spokesperson for the Palestine Prisoners Center for Studies, said the 55-year-old Palestinian legislator was freed from Ktzi’ot Prison in the Negev desert, located 72 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on Monday.
Israeli forces detained Raddad in a wave of arrests linked to the alleged disappearance of three teenage Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank in June 2014.
Most of the Palestinians detained during Israel’s arrest campaign were members of Hamas resistance movement, including the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Abdul Aziz Duwaik.
Tawil said Israeli officials sentenced Raddad to 12 months in jail after he was charged with “organizing marches in support of the prisoners.”
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From PressTV
Israel briefly re-arrests Palestinian hunger striker
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan has been re-arrested by Israeli forces for several hours a day after he was freed from an Israeli jail following about two months of avoiding food.
The veteran hunger striker was reportedly heading into the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds to participate in a religious ceremony on Monday in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound when he was arrested.
“Khader Adnan was arrested because he had no right to be in the Old City of Jerusalem (al-Quds) where free access is allowed to West Bank Palestinians only aged 50 and above, and he is just 37,” said Israel Police spokesperson Luba Samri.
The 37-year-old detainee was taken to a police station in the city. However, media reports said that Adnan was released after several hours.
Adnan was set free early on Sunday from an Israeli prison after weeks of staging a hunger strike in protest at the Israeli practice of the so-called administrative detention.
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From The Times of Israel
Americans expressed mixed feelings ahead of Iran deal: poll
77% say Iran sanctions should remain or be increased, but 51% want US to have diplomatic relations with Tehran
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans think of Iran as an enemy of the United States, but a narrow majority still supported a diplomatic relationship in a poll conducted on the eve of the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Things to know about public opinion on Iran:
MOST WANT DIPLOMACY, LIKE SANCTIONS
A slim majority of Americans (51 percent) said the United States should have a diplomatic relationship with Iran, the AP-GfK poll found, slightly more than the 45% who said it should not.
At the same time, sanctions against Iran were popular. Altogether, 45% of Americans in the poll said the sanctions should remain at their current level and 32 percent thought they should be increased. Just 12 percent thought sanctions should be decreased and 7 percent said they should be eliminated. The question did not mention the possibility of reducing sanctions in exchange for a nuclear deal.
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From The Times of Israel
Obama to speak to press as he tries to sell Iran deal
Lobby groups deploy multi-million-dollar campaign for and against as White House prepares PR blitz
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama will hold a press conference Wednesday as he attempts to convince Americans, allies and skeptical lawmakers about the benefits of a nuclear deal with Iran.
Obama will answer questions in the East Room of the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday.
With Congress set to vote on the deal and Republicans clamoring to denounce it, the White House is aggressively making its case.
Obama must garner the backing of a majority of Democrats in the Republican-controlled Congress to keep the deal alive.
Earnest said Obama has already been briefing some lawmakers on the deal.
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From The Times of Israel
ADL, AIPAC worried by Iran deal; J Street set to push it
American Jewish groups turn their focus to coming Congressional battle over nuclear agreement hailed by Obama, loathed by Netanyahu
WASHINGTON — American Jewish and pro-Israel groups turned their focus toward Capitol Hill Tuesday morning after waking to the long-anticipated announcement that an agreement had been signed between Iran and the P5+1 member states. A number of organization expressed concern over the deal, even as they offered muted congratulations to the Obama administration for its efforts in securing a negotiated agreement with Iran.
Many of the major organizations representing the American Jewish community and Middle East policy positions are expected to begin a lobbying blitz over the next two months as Congress reviews the Iran deal. J Street, Americans for Peace Now and the National Iranian American Council are all expected to push, together with the administration, for Congress to okay the deal, while statements issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and others indicated that those organizations will ultimately push for the deal’s rejection.
The ADL expressed “serious concern about shortcomings” in the agreement.
ADL National Chair Barry Curtiss-Lusher and National Director Abraham H. Foxman wrote in a statement that after a preliminary review, they “are deeply disappointed by the terms of the final deal with Iran announced today which seem to fall far short of the President’s objective of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon state.”
“The thrust of the deal relies entirely on Iran’s good faith and the ability of the IAEA to effectively carry out its inspection obligations,” the two complained.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
BBC defends translation of Gaza kids saying Israel perpetrated massacres
(JTA) – The BBC defended its decision to translate the words of Gaza children saying that Israel was responsible for massacres rather than Jews.
The translation appears in subtitles that BBC editors prepared for the public broadcaster’s documentary “Children of the Gaza War” by Lyse Doucet, which was cleared for airing this week.
In one interview, a Gazan child says the “yahud” are massacring Palestinians. However, the subtitles read, “Israel is massacring us.” The Arab-language words for Jews and Israelis are pronounced “yahud” and “yisraelina,” respectively. The BBC in the past has offered a correct translation of the word “yahud.”
Responding to complaints by viewers, the British Broadcasting Corp.’s complaints department sent one complainant a letter that read, “We took advice from a number of translators in Gaza and London and were advised that the most accurate interpretation of what the contributors were saying in this context was ‘Israeli.’”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Sheldon Silver’s son-in-law pleads guilty to $7 million Ponzi scheme
NEW YORK (JTA) — The son-in-law of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded guilty to running a $7 million Ponzi scheme.
Marcello Trebitsch, 37, offered his plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday on charges of wire fraud and securities fraud. He was arrested in April.
“I’m sorry for what I’ve done and I apologize to the court and my family,” Trebitsch reportedly said in court.
Trebitsch is facing up to 20 years in prison. The plea deal calls for him to serve between 51 to 63 months, according to the New York Daily News. He must also pay nearly $5.9 million in forfeiture and restitution.
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