Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has warned Iran that it should not “test” its country, so Tehran and the major powers are negotiating for a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Israel vehemently opposes.
Yair Lapid made the statement during a visit to an Israeli Air Force base in the south of the country, with his office releasing a video of his speech showing him standing in front of an F-35 fighter jet.
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Israel is waging an offensive to try to convince Westerners not to renew the 2015 Iranian nuclear program agreement (JCPOA), from which Donald Trump’s United States withdrew three years later. “It’s still too early to know if we actually succeeded in stopping the nuclear deal, but Israel is prepared for any threat and any scenariosaid Yair Lapid, whose country considers Iran its number one enemy.
“If Iran continues to test us, it will discover Israel’s long arm and capabilities“, he said again, promising to “continue to act on all fronts against terrorism and against those who seek to harm us“. “Like the president [américain] Biden and I have agreed, Israel has complete freedom to do as it sees fit to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear threat.“warned Yair Lapid.
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Israeli Foreign Secret Service (Mossad) chief David Barnea is currently visiting the United States as part of “the diplomatic campaign against Iranthe prime minister’s office said in a statement. David Barnea was to have talks with officials from the American security agencies. Israel is adamantly opposed to the 2015 nuclear deal, which gave Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curtailing its nuclear program.
US President Joe Biden is seeking to revive the agreement, moribund since the unilateral withdrawal in 2018 of the United States of Donald Trump who reimposed severe sanctions on Iran, leading in response to the gradual disengagement of Tehran. Israel, considered by experts to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, promises to do everything it can to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, a goal the Islamic Republic has always denied pursuing.
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