“Israel had plotted not to allow any agreement in these negotiations,” Rezayee told FNA in Tehran on Sunday.
Asked if he believed the Zionist lobby was powerful enough to influence the western parties in the negotiations between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), he said, “It was something beyond lobbying and it was clear that there was a big collusion behind the scene.”
His remarks alluded to the comments by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who said Israel’s “concerns” must be taken into consideration while a deal between Iran and the world powers seemed on the cusp.
“It is necessary to take fully into account Israel’s security concerns and those of the region,” Fabius told France Inter radio in Geneva early on Saturday at the beginning of the third day of talks between Iran and the world powers.
The news came amid Israel’s deep anger over the likelihood of an agreement between Iran and the six world powers in the course of the ongoing nuclear talks.
On Friday, Netanyahu “utterly” denounced a possible agreement in the course of the nuclear talks as “very, very bad”.
This is while analysts believe that Israel, the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle-East with 200-400 warheads, fears a rapprochement between Iran and the US, its main alley.
Also, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in his facebook page on Sunday that Tehran and the world powers were on the verge of striking a deal in the recent Geneva talks, but French officials impeded the agreement by their negative stance.
“Reaching an agreement with most members of the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) was likely, but anyway there was a need for the companionship of all of them and as you have heard from the public remarks of the ministers, one of the delegations (the French) created some problems,” Zarif wrote in his Facebook page before leaving Geneva for Tehran Sunday morning.
