Jerusalem / Abdel Raouf Arnaout / Anatolia
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told French President Emmanuel Macron that Tel Aviv would not be bound by the international agreement developed with Iran.
“Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke today (Monday) with French President Emmanuel Macron, and they discussed the Iranian nuclear file at length,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said, in a statement sent to Anadolu Agency.
He added, “The prime minister reiterated Israel’s opposition to returning to the agreement, and the need for a clear and unambiguous message that there will be no additional concessions to the Iranians.”
He stated that the crystallized agreement contains new elements that “go beyond the limits of the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” and said that it would “pave the way for significant investments to flow into the Iranian terrorist network and strengthen the Iranian army.”
Lapid said that Israel “opposes a return to the deal, will not be bound by such an agreement, and will continue to do everything to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear capability.”
On the other hand, Lapid’s office said that French President Macron “renewed his commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.”
Earlier on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that the developing agreement between international powers and Iran was “bad”, and that Israel was once morest it.
In an interview with the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, on Monday, he said, “We are once morest it. It is a bad agreement in several areas related to the enrichment capacity, the development of nuclear capabilities and weapons systems.”
The European Union, coordinator of the negotiations to revive the agreement, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew four years ago, submitted last week a “final” settlement proposal, calling on Tehran and Washington, who are negotiating indirectly, to respond to it, hoping to culminate in talks that began a year and a half ago.
On Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced in a press briefing for its spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, that “relatively good progress” has been made in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
Kanaani said that Tehran will not announce an agreement on the full return of the nuclear agreement until following “everything is agreed upon” with the concerned parties, especially the United States.
Diplomats from Iran, the United States and 5 countries (China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany) have been negotiating for months in Vienna on a deal to restore Tehran’s commitment to restrictions on its nuclear program, in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
In May 2018, former US President Donald Trump reinstated sanctions on Tehran, following announcing his withdrawal from the nuclear agreement concluded under his predecessor Barack Obama.
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