In Egypt, the first meeting at the level of senior officials between Iran and Israel, held in secrecy, says Daniele Mastrogiacomo in the newspaper La Repubblica.

In the decisive hours of talks on Iran’s nuclear program situation revived the detective nature of the information that came to Australian journalists from the Arabic source. The Australians immediately put it in the network. Israel initially denied a publicly information, but then acknowledged their authenticity. Iran, however, remains silent on this matter.

The question is that the September 29-30 this year in a Cairo hotel in an event organized by the Australian Agency for International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), met two representatives of Israel’s former Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami and the head of the Commission on Nuclear Energy Meirav Zafar-Odiz, Iranian Ambassador to IAEA Ali Ashgar Soltanieh (the latter in this week’s discussions with the United States, Russia and France, the issue of uranium enrichment for research purposes). According to Arab diplomats, the meeting between representatives of Israel and Iran took place in an atmosphere of highest tension and mutual recrimination, they nevertheless had the opportunity to express their views. The source also said that it is not the first Israeli-Iranian meeting, but since 1979 the delegation did not meet at such a high level.

UNO expects today from Tehran’s explicit consent to the proposed plan to enrich uranium. And, most likely, an artificial leakage of information about the first meeting between the two arch-rivals will facilitate the path to the most important negotiations: the control of all nuclear production regime of the ayatollahs, the author writes.