US open to discussing wider deal with Iran

 

Western officials believe Iran may wish to discuss a wider road map to revive the 2015 nuclear deal after efforts to sketch out initial US and Iranian steps to resume compliance with the agreement have stalled, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

US President Joe Biden’s aides initially believed Iran, with which they have not had direct discussions, wanted to talk about first steps toward a revival of the agreement.

The agreement would have eased economic sanctions on Tehran in return for curbs to the Iranian nuclear program designed to make it harder to develop an atomic weapon.

Three Western officials said the Biden administration and Iran had mainly communicated indirectly via European parties to the deal - Britain, France and Germany - and that they believe Iran now wants to discuss a broader plan to return to the pact.

“What we had heard was that they were interested first in a series of initial steps, and so we were exchanging ideas on a series of initial steps” a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters.

“It sounds from what we are hearing publicly now, and through other means, that they may be ... not interested in (discussing) initial steps but in a road map for return to full compliance,” he said.

“If that’s what Iran wants to talk about, we are happy to talk about it,” the US official added.

Iran has gradually scaled back its compliance with the 2015 deal in response to former US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement in May of 2018.

Biden has expressed a desire to return to the deal but has stressed that Iran must resume compliance with it before any negotiations on a US return to the agreement.

The US recently accepted Europe's offer to mediate conversations with Iran regarding the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iran, however, rejected the proposal, claiming that the “time was not right” to hold such talks.

On Monday, it was reported that Biden is planning to put forth a new proposal to jump-start talks with Iran.

The proposal asks Iran to halt some of its nuclear activities, such as work on advanced centrifuges and the enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity, in exchange for some relief from US economic sanctions.

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Biden administration resumes use of 'Occupied Territories'....But the USA is Still Called The "UNITED" States!

בדוח זכויות האדם השנתי של מחלקת המדינה בארצות הברית חזרו לשימוש במונח ״השטחים הכבושים״, חזרה לנוהג לפני עידן טראמפ. במחלקצ המדינה הבהירו שאין במינוחים עמדה באשר לגבולות שיקבעו בהסדר מול הפסטינים. וככה ענו על זה בתדרוך: pic.twitter.com/16QLuPY6NK

— יונה לייבזון yuna leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) March 30, 2021

 The US State Department’s annual report on human rights violations published on Tuesday refers to Judea, Samaria, Gaza, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as territories “occupied” by Israel but does not title the chapter “Israel and the Occupied Territories”.

The title “Israel and the Occupied Territories” was the title used by the State Department until the Trump administration changed the custom, after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

The 2020 report, which is the first to be released during the Biden administration, uses the label “Israel, the West Bank and Gaza” - the same chapter name from the last two reports issued during the Trump administration.

The report states it “covers the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem territories that Israel occupied during the June 1967 war” - a reference to the Six Day War - but also clarifies that “language in this report is not meant to convey a position on any final status issues to be negotiated between the parties to the conflict, including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, or the borders between Israel and any future Palestinian state.”

Lisa Peterson, acting top State Department official on human rights, said on Tuesday that the report's authors continued to believe it was better to assign geographic names.

"That's in line with our practices generally. We also believe it is clearer and more useful for readers seeking information on human rights in those specific areas," she told reporters, according to AFP.

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Drama In J-m’s Biblical Zoo As Lion Eats Bunny In Front Of Children

גן החיות התנ"כי התחפש לנשיונל ג'יאוגרפיק באמצע היום. הילדים שהגיעו היום לגן החיות נדהמו לצפות איך אריה טורף ארנבות באמצע היום..... ההורים הזדעזעו pic.twitter.com/6K5D0L3W3Q

— Yossi Eli יוסי אלי (@Yossi_eli) March 21, 2021

 

The Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem is reviewing its feeding protocols following a rare incident in which children observed a lion eating a rabbit, JTA reported.

“The Biblical Zoo turned into National Geographic in the middle of the day,” a Channel 13 News journalist wrote on Twitter.

“The children who came to the Biblical Zoo today were astounded to see how a lion devours rabbits in the middle of the day. Their parents were horrified.”

The lions are usually fed animals out of public view but in this case, the lion dragged the rabbit into the public area, according to a statement by the zoo.

“The Asian lions in the zoo, which are a species in danger of extinction, are part of a worldwide lion conservation program,” the zoo stated.

“The lions in the zoo are fed prey that is no longer alive, which the zoo receives from an animal food provider. Due to sensitivity, the lions receive their food behind the scenes. In this case, the lion dragged its prey into the exhibition area.”

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White House Hints That "Camela" Harris Will Soon be President

 

.@PressSec is asked if "there is any message being sent" by the rebranding of the admin to the "Biden-Harris" administration:

"It is a reflection of the important role that she will play moving forward." pic.twitter.com/0YIQiwx5pr

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 30, 2021

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Rav Izak Blau Will be a Witness Against Yehuda Mashi-Zahav ...

It's ok to "masser" since he left the anti-Zionist cult....  therefore it's a "mitzvah"to "masser" on him  ...but if he had remained, it would have been "asur"  ...

Blau knew this about Mashi-Zahav for over 20 years and allowed Mashi-Zahav to molest and rape...because Mashi-Zahav belonged to the cult ...

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Hatzala Member Chaim Zev Har-Kesef 43 Killed in Car Accident

 

One person was killed and three people were injured in a serious traffic accident on Highway 6 Thursday afternoon.

A 43-year-old man was critically injured in the accident. He was evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where doctors were forced to declare his death. He has been identified as Haim Har Kesef, a veteran volunteer at United Hatzalah.

Har Kesef's daughter, a 17-year-old girl in serious condition, a 20-year-old man in mild to moderate condition and a three-year-old toddler in similar condition were treated by the MDA staff and also evacuated to Rambam Hospital.".

Senior MDA medic Ruslan Singerman said: "I was driving on Highway 6 when I reached the entrance checkpoint to the tunnel which was closed while at the same time I received an MDA report of the accident. I went inside the new tunnel and saw the serious accident."

He said, "The wounded were lying on the road with one of them unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing and the others were conscious. We immediately began medical examinations for all four of them and performed advanced resuscitation operations on a human wounded man."

"Together with the large MDA teams that arrived at the scene, we continued the medical treatment and evacuated the wounded to Rambam Hospital with one of them in critical condition, the girl in serious condition and the other two in moderate to mild condition," Singerman added.

United Hatzalah founder Eli Beer was also one of the first responders on the scene and said: "While I was traveling with my family to the north of Israel for a vacation, United Hatzalah's Dispatch and Command Center alerted me to a car accident that took place near our location. When I arrived at the scene I immediately began CPR on a 40-year-old man who had no pulse due to his injuries. My wife Gitty and my children who are also EMTs began treating a woman who was moderately injured and a baby who was in light condition as a result of the accident."

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Helbrans Kicks Out Askanim Who are Trying To Get Back Teller Children That Were Kidnapped On a Shabbos

 

ארויס פין בבל pic.twitter.com/FCFQ5XzOU4

— Hasidic2 (@hasidic_1) March 30, 2021

ווידיאוס פין די לב טהור קולט, ווען עטליכע עסקנים האבן פרובירט צי צוריק נעמן די קינדער פין משפחת טעלער וואס זיי האבן פארכאפט אין שבת pic.twitter.com/Jz62mJEQNA

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Meir Simcha Katzberg 17 of Beit Shemesh Missing

 משטרת ישראל מבקשת את עזרת הציבור באיתור נעדר חרדי, שהקשר עמו נותק החל מלפנות בוקר (שני) ואבדו עקבותיו.

Police are asking for help in locating a Chareidie youth, communication with him was lost on Monday morning.

הנעדר עונה לשם מאיר שמחה קצבורג כבן 17, ועל פי הידוע הוא יצא היום מביתו בבית שמש ומאז נותק עמו הקשר ואבדו עקבותיו.

The missing youth answers to Meir Simcha and he is 17 years old, he left his house yesterday 

תיאורו: גובהו כ-1.75 מטר, גוון עורו בהיר, מבנה גופו רזה. ככל הידוע, בעת שיצא מהבית לבש חולצה לבנה ומכנס שחור ותיק גב בצבע תכלת.

He is approx 1.75 meters, he is light skinned, an is thin...when he left, he wore a white shirt with black pants and had a blue knapsack

"כל היודע דבר על מקום הימצאו מתבקש לדווח למוקד 100 של המשטרה או לתחנת בית שמש בטלפון: 02-9902222", נמסר מהמשטרה.

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Yaakov Weingarten Leader of Cult "Lev Tahor" Arrested On First Day Pesach

 

I guess he went from "chierut le'avdus" ... he is accused of kidnapping and abusing children.

Interesting, this parasite had a minhag of kidnapping  children on Shabbos making it difficult to have them traced .. so now he was arrested on Yom Tov in Guatemala ...

According to the Hebrew Blog Kikar Ha'shabbos The court is considering extraditing him to Iran .....

Yankele the kidnapper with Nachman Helbrans

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