{"id":1403268,"date":"2022-03-27T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403268"},"modified":"2022-03-27T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:45:01","slug":"bennett-to-blinken-israel-concerned-by-u-s-delisting-irgc-as-terror-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bennett-to-blinken-israel-concerned-by-u-s-delisting-irgc-as-terror-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett to Blinken: Israel &#039;Concerned&#039; by U.S. Delisting IRGC as Terror Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbennett-to-blinken-israel-concerned-by-u-s-delisting-irgc-as-terror-group%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403268&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Israel was \u201cconcerned\u201d over the prospect of the U.S. removing Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the terror list amid a renewed nuclear deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope the U.S. will hear concerned voices in the region, from Israel and others, on this issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in the day he said,\u00a0\u201cThe idea that this organization will be removed from the terrorist list, from the FTO, is very disturbing and not just to us. We are still hoping and working toward preventing this from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic has demanded the IRGC be delisted from the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) as part of its terms for the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett also thanked Blinken for his efforts \u201cto further and expand\u201d the Abraham Accords, which the Trump administration spearheaded with the normalization of ties between Israel and four Arab Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Donald Trump on Tuesday celebrated the signing of the \u201cAbraham Accords,\u201d a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates brokered by the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kim5DSQiPs\">https:\/\/t.co\/kim5DSQiPs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1305931621615501313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Middle East is changing and it\u2019s changing for the better,\u201d Bennett said. \u201cWe\u2019re working together to overcome the forces of darkness and build a new future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the issue of Iran, Blinken said: \u201cDeal or no deal, we will continue to work together and with other partners to counter Iran\u2019s destabilizing behavior in the region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken avoided answering directly when asked by a reporter whether the U.S. considered the IRGC to be a terror organization, saying it \u201cis probably the most designated organization in one way or another in the world among organizations that we designate, including the foreign terrorist organization designation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a briefing with Israeli Foreign Minister\u00a0Lapid,\u00a0Blinken said the U.S. and Israel saw \u201ceye to eye\u201d when it came to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u201cWhether there\u2019s a JCPOA or not, Our commitment to the core principle of Iran never acquiring a nuclear weapon is unwavering,\u201d Blinken\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/LIVE-lapid-and-blinken-meet-ahead-of-israel-s-mideast-summit-1.10700744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20399969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239543074.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and US Secretary of state Antony Blinken address the media following their meeting at the prime minister\u2019s office in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2022. ( JACQUELYN MARTIN\/POOL\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lapid was more ambiguous in his remarks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"lj ti tj tk tl tm\">\u201cWe have disagreements about a nuclear agreement and its consequences, but open and honest dialogue is part of the strength of our friendship,\u201d Lapid said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"lj ti tj tk tl tm\">\u00a0\u201cIsrael will do anything we believe is needed to stop the Iranian nuclear problem program. Anything from our point of view, the Iranian threat is not theoretical, the Iranians wants to destroy Israel. They will not succeed. We will not let them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken denounced Tehran\u2019s \u201cdestabilizing activities in the region and beyond,\u201d which he noted had increased since the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear deal in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came ahead of an historic summit hosted by Israel attended by top diplomats\u00a0from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI have no doubt that the heroic national resistance of Iran is going to compel the future U.S. government to bow\u2026 and the sanctions will be broken.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lKy6pbFp7P\">https:\/\/t.co\/lKy6pbFp7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1339633571774955520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Egypt was the first Arab country to make peace with Israel in 1979, though relations have been lukewarm at best.\u00a0Since normalizing ties with three of the four other countries in 2020 as part of the Abraham Accords, Israel\u2019s relations with its southern neighbor have improved drastically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The summit \u201cwould have been unimaginable just a few years ago. What we\u2019re seeing is normalization becoming the new normal for this region and I think it\u2019s going to attract more and more countries as they see the benefits of these partnerships among so many of the leading countries of the region,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Israel was \u201cconcerned\u201d over the prospect of the U.S. removing Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the terror list amid a renewed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}