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US President-elect Joe Biden said the policy of his predecessor Donald Trump complicated efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and an Israeli newspaper revealed that Mossad planned to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed last week, while Israel warned Dimona nuclear reactor employees against a possible Iranian target.
In his first interview with CNN today, Friday, Biden said that his country would not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons, considering that what Trump had done was to pressure the Iranians to increase their capacity to possess nuclear materials.
Responding to a question about the impact of Fakhrizadeh’s assassination on efforts to return to the Iran nuclear deal, Biden said the size of the complexity is difficult to know, adding: “I have made it clear to our friends at NATO and in contacts with 20 heads of state that we have a president in each of them. Once, that is why I cannot create a policy, but I want to re-politicize the strong and close alliance relations that we had both in Europe and in the Pacific “.
Biden pointed out that Europe is now moving away from the United States due to “the embrace of dictators by Trump and putting his finger in their eyes,” and continued: “Of course it will be difficult negotiations, I have no doubt about that. “.
“They are close to being able to possess enough materials to build a nuclear weapon, and there are many unsolved problems, including missile problems,” he said.
The president-elect of the United States concluded his speech by saying that dealing with all these axes will be very difficult, but he is sure that his country cannot do it alone, but should be part of a larger group to deal with Iran, Russia, China. and other topics.
Against this background, German Chancellor Heiko Maas, whose country holds the presidency of the European Union, said that returning to the Iranian nuclear deal is no longer enough. “There should be some kind of nuclear deal with additives, which is also in our interest,” he said in an interview with Der Spiegel.
Mossad
On the other hand, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said in an investigation that the Mossad had prepared a special file on Fakhrizadeh, as he was under close surveillance among a group of Iranian scientists that the Mossad had been tracking since the early 1990s.
According to the investigation, the Intelligence Division of the Israeli army had opposed the implementation of the Mossad plot to assassinate him, because it wanted to continue the investigation into his involvement in the nuclear project and therefore the plan prepared to assassinate him was not implemented. at that moment.
Dimona
On the other hand, Israeli authorities warned employees of the Dimona nuclear reactor today that they may be attacked by Iranians or by parties operating at the behest of Tehran.
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned, in a statement, that Tehran would target Israeli interests in countries close to Iran, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
On the other hand, the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard denied the validity of the news of attacking a guard commander near the Iraq-Syria border, saying that “revenge for the blood of Fakhri Zadeh and Qassem Soleimani it is final and forthcoming “.
The United States’ special representative for Washington on Iran and Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, said Iran is unlikely to retaliate for the assassination of Fakhri Zadeh before Biden took office, fearing it would jeopardize any future prospects. sanctions.
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