While the world focuses on ISIS and its terror threat, as far as Israel is concerned the Iranian nuclear program is the main concern, according to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz.

“The Iranians continue in their insistence now as they did under Ahmadinejad, to retain most of the centrifuges and the heavy water reactor in Arak. There is no real difference.”

Steinitz said that Israel is “disturbed” and that “no deal is better than a bad deal.”

The minister made the comments during a news conference on September 17 on his return from strategic talks with Washington and ahead of the latest round of P5+1 negotiations with Iran scheduled to start tomorrow in New York.

The Iran parley follows closely on the heels of the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on the Iranian file, which suggested a lack of compliance on Tehran’s part and a failure to meet key agreed-upon deadlines.

Iran’s militarized nuclear program is not the only international cause for concern this week over the behavior of the Islamic republic.

It has come to light that Tehran has imprisoned a British woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami, apparently because she wanted the right to watch a volleyball game alongside male fans.

Shiva Nazar Ahari, a leading rights activist, was among the women protesting alongside Ghavami that day. She has written on her Facebook page that their demand simply was to be allowed to enter the stadium.

“We wanted to go to the stadium together. We wanted to go sit on those chairs to scream and cheer for our national team,” she wrote.

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