Israel warned that the Biden administration’s willingness to resume negotiations with Iran to rejoin the 2015 nuclear accord “will pave Iran’s path towards a nuclear arsenal,” a report said.
“Israel remains committed to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and its position on the nuclear deal has not changed,” the prime minister’s office said, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Israel believes the return to the old agreement will pave Iran’s way to a nuclear arsenal. Israel is in close contact with the United States on this matter, ”it added.
On Thursday, the State Department said Washington would accept an invitation to meet with the countries that negotiated the original agreement – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Iran – “to advance a diplomatic path with discuss Iran’s nuclear program. “
“We are ready to appear should such a meeting take place,” a US official told Reuters.
In 2018, the Trump administration withdrew from the deal three years after it was brokered by the Obama administration. The deal reduced sanctions against Tehran in exchange for reducing the supply of enriched uranium needed to fuel nuclear weapons.
Since the US withdrawal, Iran has admitted it violated the 2015 deal by using advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges in an underground plant.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed the deal with Iran from the start.
A senior European Union official said Friday that the EU is in the process of organizing an informal meeting with all participants in the nuclear deal and the US.
No invitations have been sent and there is no timetable for the meeting, but world powers want to revive the nuclear accord as soon as possible, the official added, the Jerusalem Post said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said US sanctions must be lifted before his country would consider complying with the deal again.
When sanctions are lifted, “we will immediately reverse all remedial action. Simple, ”said Zarif on Twitter.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran was considering Washington’s offer to talk about reviving the nuclear deal.
But first they have to get back to the deal. Then, under the 2015 deal, a mechanism could be discussed to effectively synchronize steps, ”said the official.
Tehran has set a deadline for the US on Feb. 23 to begin to undo the sanctions, otherwise it would take the biggest step yet to violate the deal – banning short-term inspections by the nuclear watchdog of Tehran. the UN.
With pole wires