Bennett: The agreement reached with Iran will create a violent environment in the Middle East
The Prime Minister referred at the "Conference of Presidents" to the progress of contacts between the powers and Iran and said that Israel does not oppose any agreement, and that even those who supported the agreement in the past, oppose it today.
"We will respond with all the means at our disposal," Bennett said.
"Israel is worried about this - but stronger than ever"
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20/02/2022
Sunday, 20 February 2022, 19:06 Updated: 19:25
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the Conference of Presidents today (Sunday) on the new nuclear agreement that is expected to be signed between the powers and Iran.
"The emerging agreement with Iran will create a violent and unstable environment in the Middle East," Bennett said.
"While the world's eyes are on the Ukraine-Russia border, trying to imagine where history will turn, we - in Israel and the region - look at Ukraine with one eye and Vienna with the other, where the talks between the powers and Iran take place. We look at Vienna, and we are very disturbed by what we see."
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"We are looking at Vienna, and we are disturbed by what we see," Bennett (Photo: Government Press Office, Amos Ben Gershom)
"The Iranians are at a very advanced stage of their uranium enrichment project. They have crossed one red line after another, including an unprecedented 60% enrichment," the prime minister said, adding that "the biggest problem with this deal is that within two and a half years, Iran will be able to develop. "Install and operate advanced centrifuges. Imagine football stadiums of rotating advanced centrifuges - this is allowed in this agreement."
Bennett went on to emphasize three important points on the subject of the agreement.
First, the agreement leaves Iran a fast track for enrichment at the military level.
"They will not even have to destroy all the centrifuges they have developed over the last few years," Bennett says.
The second point is that the Iranian regime is insisting on closing the IAEA's open files. .
Finally, Bennett noted that the agreement will inject billions of dollars into the Iranian terrorist machine - "more drones, more attacks on ships, more rockets on Israel and our allies through its arms."
Representatives of the powers and Iran at the nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria (Photo: Reuters)
Two days ago, the United States said that "significant progress" had been made during the negotiations in Vienna for a return to the nuclear agreement with Iran, and that an agreement seemed possible within days if Iran "took the matter seriously".
Talks in Vienna, which include Iran as well as Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States indirectly, resumed in late November with the aim of rescuing the 2015 agreement.
The agreement offered easing of sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbing its nuclear program, but the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018 under former President Donald Trump and re-imposed heavy economic sanctions, prompting Iran to start backing its commitments.
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