Israel has warned that the Biden government’s willingness to restart with Iran on reconnection with the 2015 nuclear power “will pave the way for Iran to become a nuclear arsenal”, according to a report.
“Israel is still committed to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and its position on the nuclear deal has not changed,” the prime minister’s office told the Jerusalem Post.
“Israel believes that returning to the old agreement will pave the way for Iran to a nuclear arsenal. “Israel is in close contact with the United States on this matter,” he added.
The foreign ministry said on Thursday that Washington would accept an invitation to meet with the countries that negotiated the original agreement – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Iran – “for a diplomatic way forward over Iran. to discuss its core program. “
“We are ready to show up if such a meeting takes place,” a US official told Reuters.
In 2018, the Trump administration withdrew from the agreement three years after it was mediated by the Obama administration. The agreement reduced sanctions against Tehran in exchange for the country reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium to fuel nuclear weapons.
Since withdrawing from the U.S., Iran has acknowledged violating the 2015 agreement by using advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges in an underground plant.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed the Iran deal from the outset.
A senior European Union official said on Friday that the EU was working to organize an informal meeting with all participants in the nuclear deal and the US.
No invitations have been sent and there is no time frame for the meeting, but world powers want to revive the nuclear deal as soon as possible, the official added, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said US sanctions should be lifted before his country considers reconsidering the agreement.
When sanctions are lifted, “we will then reverse all corrective measures immediately. Simple, “Zarif said on Twitter.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran was considering Washington’s offer to revive the nuclear deal.
“But first they have to return to the agreement. In the framework of the 2015 agreement, a mechanism can be discussed to basically synchronize steps, ‘the official said.
Tehran has set a deadline of February 23 for the US to begin reversing sanctions, otherwise he said it would take its biggest step yet to break the agreement – the ban on short notice inspections by the UN watchdog.
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