Israel pressures the US and the EU to abandon nuclear negotiations with Iran

Aug. 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid has pressured the United States and the European Union to abandon negotiations to renew the 2015 nuclear deal.

According to Israeli representatives, the West must abandon the negotiations on the nuclear pact with Tehran because “any other action sends a strong message of weakness”, pick up the Israeli media.

“Iran rejected the offer and the time has come to get up and go,” said a senior official, after recalling that this offer was established to “take it or leave it.”

Now is the time to discuss what to do to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, the source said. “Israel, as the whole world knows, is not bound by anything and will do whatever it takes to stop a nuclear Iran and prevent Iran from using its terrorist proxies in the region,” she added.

Lapid would have transmitted this message to the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz; the US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides; and the chairman of the US Congressional Subcommittee on the Middle East, Ted Deutch.

Lapid, continuing this line, plans to continue making calls to Western leaders and diplomats to let them know his opinion.

The spokesman for the United States Department of State, Ned Price, positively assessed on Tuesday the European Union’s plan to resume the nuclear agreement with Iran. Although the US has so far refused to comment in detail on the proposal, Price said the big issues in reviving the 2015 international nuclear deal have been “largely resolved”, Bloomberg reported.

This Monday, the Iranian government sent its response to Borrell’s proposal, showing optimism about the options for the agreement to materialize. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, had explained that he saw a rapprochement “in the next few days” feasible “if the United States shows a realistic approach and flexibility.”