Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is currently holding a tripartite meeting in the United States with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah Ben-Ziad.
During the meeting, Lapid said: "At the center of my visit here is the concern from Iran's race for nuclear capability. Iran is becoming a nuclear threshold country. Every day that passes, every further drag of negotiations, brings Iran closer to a bomb."
Foreign Minister sent a message to Iran and the world: "Israel reserves the opportunity and the right to act against the Iranian nucleus at any moment, in any situation and in any way. This is not only our right, but our duty. Iran has publicly announced that it wants to wipe us off the face of the earth ".
On the normalization agreements he said: "We are writing a new chapter in history. It is an alliance of moderates that deals with life in hope with optimism in looking ahead. I thank you both for this alliance, for the membership, it inspires hope all over the world."
Lapid met yesterday with US Vice President Kamla Harris.
The foreign minister said, among other things: "The center of my visit is the Iranian nuclear issue, but it also deals with one other thing: strengthening the partisan connection with the next generation of young Americans. This generation is concerned not only with wars and conflicts, but also with the climate crisis, the global immigration crisis "On questions of identity."
The visit took place about a year after the signing of the Avraham agreements, and this week the Knesset lobby for these agreements was launched.
