“What Rouhani has done is concede on all kinds of secondary issues, partial concessions, but protected the project’s core, which is what threatens us and the whole world … This means that in substance Iran’s positions have remained as tough as before, and if there is no dramatic development in the coming month then either there will be no deal – or there will be a bad deal leaving Iran a nuclear threshold state, and this is of course something we are not willing to accept.” (Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz speaking on a radio interview, 03/09/2014)