Netanyahu: It is not allowed to return to the nuclear deal with Iran

The prime minister of the Israeli occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Sunday that “it is not allowed to return to the previous nuclear agreement with Iran.”

Israeli “Channel 13” quoted Netanyahu as saying that “it is not allowed to return to the previous nuclear deal with Iran. We must continue to pursue a non-negotiable policy to ensure that Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons,” as he said.

Netanyahu added that “thanks to our firm position against the Iranian nuclear program and thanks to our rejection of the nuclear deal concluded with Iran, many Arab countries have fundamentally changed their position on Israel,” he said.

Israeli “Channel 13” indicated that Netanyahu’s statement was “a message to the administration of the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, after it was reported that he will return to the agreement reached by the administration of former US President Barack Obama with Iran in 2015 “.

Netanyahu did not mention Biden directly, but the Israeli media widely regarded his remarks as a message to the next US president who says he will “not return the agreement to the United States.”

Netanyahu is considered one of the most prominent opponents of the 2015 agreement, describing it as a “very bad agreement” in a speech he made that year before the United States Congress that further strained his relationship with the “Democratic” predecessor of Trump, Barack Obama.

“It would be a mistake for the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden to return to the nuclear deal with Iran,” The Times of Israel newspaper said last Monday, quoted by “Israel’s” ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer.

Dermer, who has long been considered one of Netanyahu’s closest advisers, said the first thing I would like to say to the next American administration is: “Sit down with your allies in the region … listen to them … we are the ones. most affected in this game. “

The European parties to the deal, along with Russia and China, are trying to preserve it, despite pressure from the United States to impose comprehensive sanctions on Iran.

US President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018 and has since imposed a series of sanctions on Iran to pressure it to withdraw from its nuclear program.

The administration of US President Donald Trump hopes that the next administration will continue its approach to the Iran file and continue the campaign of “maximum pressure” on him, according to Agence France-Presse, according to a US official accompanying the secretary of state Mike Pompeo on his overseas tour today Sunday.

The president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, promised to return to the agreement concluded in 2015, “if Tehran complies with its terms.”

In the same context, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “Iran will fully implement the nuclear deal if US President-elect Joe Biden lifts sanctions against his country.”

In a statement to CBS News, Zarif said, commenting on the Biden team’s hint that his administration would try to renegotiate the nuclear deal, he said, “If we wanted to do this, we would have done it with Trump 4 years ago,” emphasizing that “Tehran will not think In any case, in the renegotiation of the elements contained in the agreement.”