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Netanyahu wants Iran deal to cover missile capacity
by Staff Writers
Jerusalem (AFP) April 7, 2015


Revolutionary Guards head praises Iran nuclear negotiators
Tehran (AFP) April 7, 2015 - The head of the elite Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday hailed the success of Iran's negotiators in talks with world powers that secured a framework deal on its long-disputed nuclear programme.

"The revolutionary children of Islamic Iran, in this diplomatic battle, were able to defend competently the rights of the nation," Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said.

Jafari, who heads an ultra-conservative branch of Iran's military, thanked President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif for their role, in comments published on the Guards' sepanews.com website.

Long-sceptical of a nuclear deal, Jafari has in the past repeatedly voiced distrust of the negotiations since they were relaunched under a Rouhani led-initiative in 2013.

Under an outline text agreed last week between Tehran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia plus Germany -- Iran must significantly reduce its number of centrifuges in exchange for a suspension of sanctions.

The outline was a major breakthrough in a 12-year international crisis over Iran's nuclear programme, although a final deal has yet to be reached.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept up his offensive against the framework nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, saying it fails to address Tehran's long-range missile arsenal.

"Why doesn't the framework address Iran's intercontinental ballistic missile programme whose sole purpose is to carry nuclear payloads?" he asked on his official Twitter account.

He said the economic benefits from the easing of sanctions would go to fund Iran-sponsored radicals across the Middle East.

"What is to stop Iran from using the over one hundred billion dollars that will be unfrozen as part of this agreement to fund aggression and terror in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere," he tweeted.

It was the latest salvo in transatlantic sniping on the issue between Netanyahu's office and the White House.

On Sunday, Netanyahu demanded that Iranian recognition of the Jewish state's right to exist be written into last week's agreement.

The following day US President Barack Obama rejected that call in an interview with US radio network NPR.

"The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognising Israel, is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms," Obama said.

"And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgement."

Ephraim Halevy, a former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, said Tuesday that the strident Israeli declarations on the emerging deal could run counter to the Jewish state's interests.

"I think we find ourselves in a moment of national paranoia," he told publicly-owned Channel One television. "It is not appropriate to our reality, our ability."

"We are the strongest country in the Middle East, and the strongest country in the Middle East should not be saying every day that it is in danger of destruction," he said.

"Israel cannot be destroyed and it is about time that the citizens of Israel understand that, internalise it and behave appropriately," he said.


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