Israel on Friday (March 18) urged the United States to leave the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's ideological power army, on its blacklist of "
terrorist organizations
", one of the final points of negotiations over the program Iranian nuclear, according to Tehran.
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“
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ... murdered thousands of people, including Americans.
We refuse to believe that the United States would revoke their terrorist organization designation
,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a joint statement.
Israel and Iran are sworn enemies.
Israel, considered by experts as the only nuclear power in the Middle East, accuses Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, which this country denies.
A “close” compromise
"
We believe that the United States will not abandon its closest allies in exchange for empty promises from terrorists
", affirmed Yaïr Lapid and Naftali Bennett, accusing the Revolutionary Guards "
of being Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen and the militias in Iraq
”.
The Jewish state is hostile to a return to the Iranian nuclear program agreement of 2015, which had allowed the lifting of sanctions against Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program supposed to prevent Tehran from acquiring the atomic bomb .
The United States ruled on Wednesday that a compromise was "
close
" to save the agreement, especially after several positive signals, including the release of two Iranian-British people held in Iran for several years.
"
We are close to a possible agreement, but we are not there yet
," US Foreign Minister Ned Price said on Wednesday.
Tehran assures that there are only "
two subjects
" left to settle with Washington: the "
economic guarantees
", which would protect the country from international sanctions, and the dispute over the Revolutionary Guards, whose withdrawal Iran is asking for. blacklisted, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran enriches uranium at a rate of 60%, close to the 90% needed to make a bomb, and has continued its made in parallel with the talks in Vienna.
The Revolutionary Guards claimed responsibility for missile fire in Iraqi Kurdistan on March 13, claiming to have targeted an Israeli "
strategic center
" and threatening the Jewish state with further "
destructive
" operations.
