Lapid answers Iran: Israel's "other capabilities" keep us alive

The prime minister responded to Iranian statements about the ability to produce nuclear weapons at a ceremony for the exchange of the head of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Bennett: "The Israeli system is working with all its might."

Earlier, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said that his country could produce an atomic bomb but had no intention of doing so.

Barak Ravid

01/08/2022

Monday, August 01, 2022, 2:03 p.m. Updated: 2:21 p.m.

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In the video: Lapid calls for the full return of the sanctions on Iran (Photo: Roni Kanfo)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid said today (Monday) at the exchange ceremony of the head of the Atomic Energy Committee that Israel's "other capabilities" - keep us alive.

"These abilities will be preserved for us as long as we and our children are here - the fate of the people of Israel is in the right hands," he said.

In doing so, Lapid answers the Iranian statements about the ability to produce nuclear weapons, in an implicit statement about the Israeli nuclear.

"What is now in front of me - the operational arena in the transparent dome above us, built of defense capabilities and attack capabilities, keep us alive," added Lapid.

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Lapid (Photo: Government Press Office, Haim Tzach)

Earlier today, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Islami, said that Iran has the technical means to produce an atomic bomb, but has no intention of doing so.

About two weeks ago, Kamal Kharazi, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said a similar thing, and threatened that Tehran would react directly against Israel if it harmed it.

"In a few days we were able to enrich uranium to the level of 60% and we can easily produce uranium enriched to 90%...Iran has the technical capabilities to produce a nuclear bomb, but no decision has been made on whether to build such a bomb," Kharazi said in an interview with the Al-J Network arena.

In a closed briefing about two weeks ago, United States President Joe Biden's senior adviser on Middle East affairs, Brett McGurk, said that the White House estimates that it is "very unlikely" that there will be a return to the nuclear agreement with Iran in the near future.

According to sources present at the briefing, he stated that due to this assessment, the Biden administration intends to use sanctions and international isolation against Iran in the meantime "but without escalating the situation unnecessarily".

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