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karynnj

(59,504 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 12:11 PM Feb 2015

Israel's US embassy tweets a ridiculous fake NYT from 2025 showing the bad effects of the p5+1

agreement. It is pretty pathetic that their ambassador is not just a Republican political operative (worked for Frank Luntz and worked on the Contract for America) but someone with the maturity of middle schooler.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/.premium-1.644505#commentsForm-644505

Israel's Washington embassy on Thursday launched a barbed Twitter campaign against the nuclear agreement negotiations between the United States, Western powers and Iran.

The embassy tweeted a fake New York Times front page, dated March 31, 2025, "reporting" how Iran had hoodwinked the world on the nuclear deal. This is 10 years after the date on which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the framework agreement will be signed.

The campaign highlights the accord's so-called "sunset clause". This states that within 10 years from signing the agreement, international restrictions on the Iranian nuclear program will gradually be eased, and fully removed five years later.

A note attached to the fake front page says "Future headlines after a bad deal?" The newspaper's main headline is "How we duped the West; Iranian Pres. Rouhani declares." The subtitle says: "P5+1: We have regrets."


Incidentally, they are INTENTIONALLY misconstruing the sunset clause. Per the US and other countries, Iran is still under the NPT forever.
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