Israel’s PM says Iran nuclear deal will finance terror in region

Aug. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Prime Minister of Israel, Yair Lapid, has criticized this Wednesday the possible nuclear agreement with Iran, assuring that it will allow Tehran to use 100 million euros a year to “sow terror throughout the world”, especially in the region.

“Israel is not against any agreement. We are against this agreement because it is bad. Because it cannot be accepted as it is written at this time,” said the Israeli prime minister, as reported by The Times. of Israel’.

In this sense, he explained that the agreement will be used to finance the Revolutionary Guard, as well as “further attacks on US bases in the Middle East.” “It will be used to strengthen Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” he added.

In this way, Lapid has assured that there is “an open dialogue” with the Biden Administration about these disagreements with a view to signing a possible nuclear agreement. “The United States is and will continue to be our closest ally,” the Israeli prime minister has settled.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz also signaled his opposition to the emerging nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday after Tehran abandoned some of its major conditions, according to a senior US official, as reported by the daily ‘Haaretz’.

Israeli National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata visited the White House on Tuesday, where he met with his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, to raise Israel’s concerns about this latest draft that will mark the roadmap for the revival of the agreement, as Politico has collected this Wednesday.

“Sullivan underscored President (Joe) Biden’s strong commitment to preserving and strengthening Israel’s ability to deter its enemies and defend itself against any threat or combination of threats, including from Iran and Israel-backed proxies.” Iran,” the White House said in a statement.

Faced with rising tensions, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday called on the United States on his official Twitter profile for Washington to refrain from signing a deal with Iran “at the last minute.”

“This agreement will send approximately a quarter of a billion dollars to the pocket of the Iranian terrorist administration and its regional representatives,” he warned, along the same lines that Lapid expressed on Wednesday.

For his part, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, has indicated this Wednesday that, from Tehran, they accept an extension of the inspections of the nuclear security agency “to guarantee reliability”, although they have urged the lifting of sanctions in return.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran from the beginning has carried out its own operations in the nuclear field on the basis of IAEA rules and regulations, and no operation is carried out without following the procedures,” he explained, according to the report. ISNA news agency.

The Brussels proposal is the umpteenth attempt to reach a new agreement, after the nuclear pact ended up collapsing after the unilateral decision of former President Donald Trump to remove Washington from the negotiating table in 2018.

Interested parties have been closely watching the next move by the United States, after the European Union announced that it had received a “reasonable” response from Iran to its proposal a week ago.

World powers have spent nearly 18 months trying to broker a deal that would restore strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for the United States relaxing some of its sanctions on the Persian republic’s economy, including on its exports of Petroleum.