{"id":27534,"date":"2016-01-10T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T12:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=27534"},"modified":"2016-01-10T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T12:08:52","slug":"israel-paid-gop-senator-1m-to-sabotage-iran-accord-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=27534","title":{"rendered":"Israel paid GOP senator $1m to sabotage Iran accord: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Senator<\/strong>Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)<\/span><\/p>\n

A Republican lawmaker at the US Senate was bribed one million dollars by Israel to try sabotaging negotiations between Tehran and the world powers, including the United States.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The name of Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) emerged on news outlets on Wednesday after a report revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had bribed the choosy lawmakers of the Republican Party so as to kill the accord.<\/p>\n

Cotton received $960,250 from the Emergency Committee for Israel, a right-wing political advocacy organization based in the United States, for his senatorial campaign.<\/p>\n

As the negotiations were continuing in March 2015, the freshman senator spearheaded an open letter, signed by 47 Republican lawmakers, to warn Iran that a GOP president would not remain committed to any agreement with Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure Bill Kristol (the owner of the Emergency Committee for Israel) did write this letter,\u201d American geopolitical commentator Dean Henderson told Press TV at the time.<\/p>\n

Kristol has been notorious for backing Israel and as a leading proponent of US military intervention in Muslim countries, including the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, in order to further the Zionist interests.<\/p>\n

Last July, Cotton likened the nuclear agreement to crucifixion of Jesus Christ and US top negotiator Secretary of State John Kerry to Pontius Pilate who let it happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will stand with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel and work with my colleagues in Congress to stop this deal,\u201d Cotton said during a visit to Israel later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite such attempts, Iran and the world powers, which also included the UK, Germany, Russia, China, and France, reached a nuclear accord in June 2014, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.<\/p>\n

Wiretaps uncovered by the Wall Street Journal<\/em> recently revealed that the Israeli premier had asked the Republicans what they wanted in exchange for opposition against the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

\u201cStepped-up NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the US-Iran negotiations\u2014learned through Israeli spying operations\u2014to undermine the talks; coordinated talking points with Jewish-American groups against the deal; and asked undecided lawmakers what it would take to win their votes, according to current and former officials familiar with the intercepts,\u201d read a WSJ<\/em> report.<\/p>\n

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