Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

NETANYAHU TALKS OF ‘WAR’ WITH IRAN

ISRAELI PM TALKS TOUGH AT WEST ASIA SUMMIT IN POLAND

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WARSAW: The US lashed out at some of its closest traditiona­l allies on Thursday, accusing UK, France and Germany of trying to bust US sanctions against Iran and calling on European nations to join the US in withdrawin­g from the Iranian nuclear deal.

In an unusually blunt speech to a Middle East conference in Poland, US Vice President Mike Pence slammed the three countries and the European Union as a whole for remaining parties to the landmark 2015 agreement after President Donald Trump withdrew from it last year and reimposed tough sanctions on Iran. The harsh criticism threatened to further chill US-European ties that are already badly strained on many issues, including trade and defence spending. It underscore­d the stark two-year trans-Atlantic divide over Iran that manifested itself again ahead of the Warsaw conference co-hosted by the US and Poland.

‘MIDEAST PEACE PLAN AFTER POLLS IN ISRAEL’

At the conference, President Trump’s senior Middle East adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner said Thursday that the Trump administra­tion would unveil its much-awaited Mideast “Deal of the Century” after the Israeli elections on April 9.

He did not go into details for fear of it leaking, according to a diplomat who watched a briefing. But he did say the plan would be released sometime after Israel’s upcoming election. The diplomat quoted Kushner as saying Trump had given him the Israeli-Palestinia­n “file” to give the long-elusive goal of a peace agreement “a shot.”

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