A nuclear deal with Iran must remove its ability to enrich uranium, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jewish News Syndicate policy conference in Jerusalem, as the US engages in direct nuclear talks with Tehran.
“A real deal that works is one that removes Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons,” he says.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that Washington seeks a deal that would prevent Iran from enriching any uranium, while his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi called the issue of enrichment “non-negotiable.”
“Dismantle all the infrastructure of Iran’s nuclear program,” says Netanyahu. “That is a deal we can live with.”
If the two sides agree on more lenient deal, says Netanyahu, Iran will simply run out the clock and wait for the end of Donald Trump’s term.
He also says that Iran’s ballistic missile production must be part of the talks as well.
“The question of defense capacities and the country’s missiles is not [on the agenda] and has not been raised in the indirect talks,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said after the latest round of talks on Saturday.
Netanyahu says he has stressed this position to Trump, and that he is in close contact with the US.
“A bad deal is worse than no deal,” he argues, repeating his position that the “only good deal” would be one modeled on the deal that Libya agreed to in 2003.
The prime minister claims that Israeli covert action over the years has set Iran’s nuclear program back a decade.
Turning to the war in Gaza, Netanyahu says that at the end of the fighting, “Hamas will not be there. And were not going to put the Palestinian Authority there.”
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