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How much France is paid for sabotage in nuclear deal

How much France is paid for sabotage in nuclear deal

France’s Francois Hollande is in Tel Aviv for talks with Israel’s officials after ingratiating conduct for Israel in Genève.

Hollande reportedly expects to bring home the bacon of many arms deals with Israel and snatch the cash from Israel in light of its role in Genève talks.

In addition to Israel, Saudi Arabia is also a good market for French weapons industry; for the French, nothing is more valuable than the cash.

Mehr Journal: Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted to say before landing of airplane carrying Hollande in Tel Aviv that he was looking forward ‘eagerly’ to Hollande, the French president and he did call Hollande in the red carpet treatment of him ‘a real friend of Israel’ for its sabotaging nuclear deal with Iran which Israel said was dangerous to itself. On the other hand, Saudi officials, angered by the Americans, now rejoice in French position on Iran’s nuclear program negotiations.

However, for the French, the important thing is lucrative arms agreements achieved through their bold positions during nuclear talks. Hollande is in Tel Aviv to boost France-Israeli trade balance being more than $ 3b in 2011. He is accompanied by CEOs of prominent French companies.

It was reported that among French arms deals much weight is assigned to unmanned planes agreements signed by Paris, which has garnered much criticism from human rights activists. The Zionist regime has frequently used French unmanned planes in raids against Gaza Strip where many Palestinians including children have been victims.

France and Israel have a long history of relations, with Israel’s purchase of French warfare. France was a major provider of arms for Israel especially during six-day war with Arab states. Only when in 1960s French-Israeli relations experienced its lows and when Charles de Gaul set an arms embargo on the countries in the region, which disturbed the Israel.

With the rise of Mitterrand to power in France, Tel Aviv-Paris relations again experienced new rise. When Nicolas Sarkozy came to power in May 2007, the French strove much to extend the economic and political ties with Israel, and in a strange statement, Sarkozy said his country would not host countries not recognizing the state of Israel. Israel, at least, would bring much money for France. Saudi Arabia has an unwritten pact with France and Israel. Saudis are angry for US policies about Tehran and Damascus and attempted a direct intervention in Syria. Foreign Policy had reports of the creation of a battalion of 40, 000 to 50,000 militia fighters being trained in Pakistan to play a role against Bashar al-Assad government.

Media reports revealed French officials seemed to exploit the situation to sign an arms deal for selling warfare to Saudi Arabia, with the proposal that French would provide them weaponry in turn for barrels of oil.

Leaked reports from meetings revealed that Saudi Crown Prince and the Head of Saudi Intelligence Organization, has been warning the US in meeting with EU diplomats. Now, it is revealed that the EU diplomats had been French, who, while presenting Saudis with smiles, they was preparing arms deals for Saudis.

In Jeddah, Bandar’s warnings for Washington and reduced ties with the US would seem redundant with Paris’ main line of talks as being arms exports. The French officials would think more about their wallets than taking a rational position on nuclear talks: for France, always there is money which mattered.

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