“...an underlying assumption that the West and especially the US are guilty of causing all suffering in the world”
Sometimes, the subject matter isn’t humorous.
In Friday’s Israel Hayom newspaper, cartoonist Shlomo Cohen drew a caricature of Uncle Sam, kneeling on his left knee while extending a nuclear bomb to an Iranian ayatollah standing tall in front of him with a big smirk on his face.
The US and its European partners are now expected to sign a new nuclear deal with Iran, perhaps by the end of September or early October. The exact timing is contingent on the outcome of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board meeting in Vienna mid-month and the annual UN General Assembly conclave in New York later this month.
Iran is pressuring the IAEA to drop its demands for an explanation for radioactive materials inspectors discovered found at “undeclared sites” in Iran. Israel is concerned the IAEA may cave to Iran because of political pressure to get a deal done. And while a meeting on the sidelines at the UN between top US and Iranian officials seems unlikely at this stage, American eagerness to put this issue behind them means anything is possible.
None of this is surprising considering the composition of the Biden administration, which includes most of the top Obama aides who negotiated the original nuclear agreement with Iran in 2015.
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