Israeli Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett said Monday Monday has violated all “red lines” which aim to limit its nuclear weapons program, but Israel “will not allow Tehran to get a bomb.
In his first address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Bennett claims the Islamic Republic in the past few years took “a big leap forward” in nuclear production capacity and the ability to enrich weapons class uranium.
“Iran’s nuclear weapons program is at a critical point, all red lines have been crossed,” Bennett said, who served in June.
“There are people in the world who seem to be chasing Iran’s nuclear weapons as an inevitable reality, as an agreement made, or they have just been tired of hearing it,” The 49-year-old Premier told the World Agency.
“Israel doesn’t have that privilege.
We can’t get tired.
We won’t get tired.
Israel will not let Iran get nuclear weapons.” Iran responded quickly, said Bennet “played the victim and desperately tried to describe the Israeli regime as an innocent person.” Israel “Trying hard to describe the ability of Iranian conventional weapons or peaceful nuclear programs exclusively, which are under the most powerful verification of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as a challenge for regional stability,” Payman Ghadirkhomi, Second Secretary for the UN mission of Iran, said to the Assembly.
“This is just a hypocritical step to divert attention from the real danger caused by regional peace and security by this regime, especially weapons of nuclear and clandestine weapons and unsafe nuclear activities and activities.” Ghadirkhomi also slams Israel to “inhibit” the formation of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, and for its activities in the Palestinian territories.
Iran, who said its nuclear program was for civilian purposes, said on Friday that he estimated talks will immediately continue to revive the 2015 landmark agreement which reduces the exchange of sanctions.
The agreement began to fall apart in 2018 when the US withdrew from him and returned sanctions.
Iran in turn returned to increase its nuclear activity.
The predecessor of Bennett Benjamin Netanyahu, who came to power from 2009 to June, was among the most powerful critics in the world for the agreement, regularly condemning him in the International Forum and supported the former US decision Donald Trump to retreat.
Bennett, an eagle of foreign policy, who heads the different Israeli coalition government, eight parties, also opposes Iran’s nuclear agreement, but does not mention it in the UN address.
In a rare interview with foreign media outlets, Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz told foreign policy magazines this month that the Jewish state did not necessarily oppose US efforts to re-enter the agreement negotiated with Iran.
“The current US approach is to restore Iran’s nuclear program in a box, I will accept it,” Gantz told the magazine, in what some Israeli experts as policy shifts.
But Gantz explained that Israel would expect “US B-LED plan” to be in a place to speak fail.
Bennett has not openly revealed openness to the Iranian agreement that was revived but had criticized Netanyahu for what he called the “gap” between the rhetoric of the former leader in Iran and reality.
He told the United Nations that Iran has enriched “uranium to a level of 60 percent, which is a step from the weapons class material – and they just got away.” The United States and the European Union on Monday also urged Iran to allow inspectors to access nuclear sites, while Tehran believed the facility was released from the recent agreement with the UN Watchdog.
The International Atomic Energy Agency based in Vienna (IAEA) said it was rejected “very necessary” access to the Manufotation Workshop of the TESA Karag Centrifuge component near Tehran, contrary to the September 12 agreement with Iran.
The Iranian ambassador for the IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, rejected the accusation, said the IAEA statement “was inaccurate and exceeded the agreed requirements.”