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Bennett to Baiden: Nothing will happen if we do not sign a nuclear deal with the Iranians - Walla! news

2022-02-10T06:22:56.459Z


The conversation between the two was friendly and Baiden told jokes, but the controversy over Iran remained the same. Bennett said that not signing an agreement would not necessarily lead to an escalation. Biden said he did not know if there would be one and stressed that he would not give up his red lines. And also: in how much time an agreement will keep Iran away from a bomb


Bennett to Baiden: Nothing will happen if we do not sign a nuclear deal with the Iranians

The conversation between the two was friendly and Baiden told jokes, but the controversy over Iran remained the same.

Bennett said that not signing an agreement would not necessarily lead to an escalation.

Biden said he did not know if there would be one and stressed that he would not give up his red lines.

And also: in how much time an agreement will keep Iran away from a bomb

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10/02/2022

Thursday, 10 February 2022, 08:09 Updated: 08:13

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In the video: Bennett refers at a cabinet meeting to the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran (Photo: GPO)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged US President Joe Biden during the phone call between them last Sunday, not to return to the 2015 nuclear deal.

"Nothing will happen if we do not sign the agreement with the Iranians," Bennett told Baiden, according to a senior Israeli official.



A US return to the nuclear deal is the most significant point of contention between the Biden government and the Israeli government, or at least parts of it.

Bennett holds the most hawkish line in government on the nuclear deal.

For him the current state of absence of an agreement is preferable to its renewal.



Defense Minister Ganz is at the very other end.

He agrees with the head of the Armed Forces, Maj.

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If a renewed nuclear deal is signed it will not lead to the destruction of the advanced centrifuges.

Bennett and Biden, August, 2021 (Photo: Government Press Office, Av Ohayon J)

Despite Bennett's stance against a US return to the nuclear deal, he is very careful not to repeat Netanyahu's mistakes.

Netanyahu's public struggle against former President Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal has led to a deep rift in relations between Israel and the United States.

Bennett wants to maintain good relations with President Biden despite the controversy.



This attitude of Bennett stood out in his conversation with Biden on Sunday.

Senior Israeli and American officials said the 30-minute conversation was genuinely warm and friendly and not just as a slogan from the diplomatic dictionary.

According to them, Biden combined jokes several times during the conversation and Bennett responded with his own jokes.

The tone and style of the conversation between Biden and Bennett were in no way similar to the tense talks between Obama and Netanyahu on the Iranian issue.

Despite this, the disagreements between the president and the prime minister were clear to both sides.



Israeli and American officials involved in the talks said Bennett had told Biden that the United States did not have to return to the nuclear deal.

He stressed that if the talks in Vienna fail and no meaningful agreement is reached there will not necessarily be an escalation in Iran's nuclear program or a regional war as some US administration officials claim.

Swap jokes.

Bennett and Biden at their meeting at the White House.

August, 2021 (Photo: Reuters)

Biden, for his part, has made it clear that he does not yet know whether a deal will be reached with the Iranians in Vienna.

U.S. officials said Biden stressed that the United States would not compromise on its red lines with regard to the restrictions the Iranians would have to accept when it came to the nuclear program.



One of Bennett's main arguments in a conversation with Biden was that the Iranians would get much more in the deal than they would give and the profit for the United States and the other powers when it came to limiting the Iranian nuclear program would not be significant enough.

Senior Israeli officials said Bennett told Baidan that in exchange for renewing restrictions on their nuclear program for a further three to five years in total, the Iranians would receive a billion-dollar flow that he claimed would go directly to military intensification and the Iranian subversion campaign in the region.



In his remarks, Bennett also relied on the calculations made in Israel regarding what would result in a return to the nuclear agreement with regard to the reversal of the Iranian nuclear program.

The 2015 nuclear deal put Iran a year away from being able to produce enough high-level enriched uranium for a single atomic bomb ("hacking"), but given the technological advances Iran has achieved, a return to the current nuclear deal in 2022 will achieve a much lower result.

New missile presented by the Revolutionary Guards, yesterday (Photo: screenshot, Tasnim)

The time of Iran's "breakthrough" was one of the main topics in the strategic talks between the United States and Israel on Iran that took place about two weeks ago in a secure video call.

Since Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal, the Iranians have dramatically reduced the "break-in" time and it currently stands at only about five weeks.



According to senior Israeli officials, two weeks ago, the Americans presented a calculation according to which the time for Iran's "breakthrough" would increase in the event of a return to the nuclear agreement from five weeks to six to nine months.

But the assessment of the Israeli intelligence community that was presented was that returning to the nuclear agreement would extend the time of the "break-in" from five weeks today to only four to six months.



If that is not enough, during the discussions that have taken place between Israel and the United States in recent weeks, it has been made clear to Israel that if a renewed nuclear deal is signed, it will not destroy Iran's advanced centrifuges, which it must not use under the 2015 nuclear deal.

Senior Israeli officials said that according to the draft agreement, the advanced centrifuges in Iran's possession would only be stored in the International Atomic Energy Agency's warehouse on Iranian soil.

Israel fears that the Iranians will be able to return these centrifuges to use in a very short time, if they wish.



Bennett does not think a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran is a complete matter.

This was also one of the reasons why National Security Adviser Eyal Hulta went out for talks with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan in the White House.

Hulta also met with CIA chief Bill Burns and Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to try to influence as much as possible the US position and coordinate positions also for a scenario where the talks in Vienna will fail.

In that case, Israel and the United States will have to work together on the Iranian issue more than ever.

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