This past Wednesday, Nov. 6, two days before the breakthrough and shortly before a historic agreement between Iran and the world powers is penned, a well-versed senior Israeli official told me that Israel was concerned by the “back-channel” negotiations between the United States and Iran. That channel, according to the Israeli source, has been very much alive and productive in recent weeks, having begun well before the start of the official negotiations between Iran and the powers, and that’s the main track where agreements and progress are being made.
Israel, the senior official added, has information about what’s going on in Iran. It also knows to a great extent what is going on in the negotiations between Iran and the Western powers (5+1). What it doesn’t know anything about, is what the Americans and the Iranians are concocting in the back rooms.