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Blinken's message to Bennett: What is your alternative to the nuclear deal? - Walla! news

2022-03-31T10:54:57.478Z


The US Secretary of State asked the Prime Minister how he planned to stop Iran from entering a nuclear deal without an agreement. Bennett claimed that this could be done through deterrence and suggested threatening Iran with severe international sanctions such as those imposed on Russia so nuclear


Blinken's message to Bennett: What is your alternative to the nuclear deal?

The US Secretary of State asked the Prime Minister how he planned to stop Iran from entering a nuclear deal without an agreement. Bennett claimed that this could be done through deterrence and suggested threatening Iran with severe international sanctions such as those imposed on Russia so nuclear

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In the video: Statements by Bennett and Blinkan and Gantz and Blinken ahead of the Negev summit (Photo: Roni Kanfo and Nicole Leskbi / Ministry of Defense)

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken asked Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during their meeting on Sunday what his alternative was to a nuclear deal that would limit Iran's uranium enrichment - they told Walla!

A senior US State Department official and an Israeli senior official involved in the contents of the meeting.



Why it matters:

After long months of indirect negotiations between the Biden government and Iran, the draft nuclear agreement is almost ready



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• Israel, together with its allies in the region, oppose the US return to the nuclear deal and are concerned that such a move would significantly strengthen Iran.

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The Negev Summit: Foreign Ministers will discuss building a regional security cooperation mechanism

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Blinken and Bennett after their meeting, this week (Photo: Flash 90, Olivia Fitoussi)

Behind the scenes:

The senior US official and the senior Israeli official said that the Iranian issue was the focus of the meeting between Bennett and Blinken and that despite the disagreement on the issue, the conversation was not tense.



Blinken asked Bennett what his alternative to the nuclear deal was and how he intends to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon while its uranium enrichment rate allows it to do so within a few weeks.

Israeli officials have said that Bennett


stressed to Blinken that Iran could be deterred from breaking into and enriching uranium to 90 percent of its nuclear weapons, by threatening US and European sanctions such as those imposed on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.


Blinken said that a nuclear agreement with Iran would be "just a band-aid" for a few years and at the same time would send billions of dollars to Iran that could use that money to increase its subversive activities in the region and arm its terrorist organizations, the senior Israeli official said.


"We here in the Middle East will be the ones who will have to deal with the regional consequences of such a move. It will be on our border," Bennett told Blinken.

The issue that stifles negotiations. Revolutionary Guards (Photo: Reuters)

The issue of the nuclear agreement with Iran also arose during the Negev summit:

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates expressed concern to Blinkan about the implications of the nuclear agreement on the region.

They stressed that they opposed the Biden government's intention to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations, two senior Israeli officials said.



Blinken, for his part, made it clear to Lapid and Arab foreign ministers that he did not yet know whether there would be a nuclear deal, noting that the US had not decided whether to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the terror list. But will continue to be involved to help them deal with Iran's regional subversion.

At the summit of the Negev, we also discussed the nuclear issue (Photo: Ministry of Defense, Shlomi Amsalem)

Situation:

Negotiations over the nuclear deal are still stuck over the issue of the Revolutionary Guards and no significant progress is expected until the end of the neurosis holiday in Iran in about a week



. Bagry on the issue of the Revolutionary Guards.


• No significant progress has been made in the talks in Tehran.

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