Israel's Position on the Emerging Nuclear Deal with Iran

18 November 2013

Israel's Position on the Emerging Nuclear Deal with Iran

1. Israel totally rejects the emerging deal between the P5 + 1 and Iran and is not bound by it.

2. Israel is receiving ongoing updates and has a clear picture concerning the emerging deal and this is a bad and dangerous deal.

3. The additional time that was obtained should be utilized to get a much better deal. Time is to the detriment of Iran - the more time that goes by, the more the sanctions are a burden for Iran and it will be compelled to agree to a better deal.

4. The continuation of the pressure will not case Iran to leave the negotiations because this is the deal of their dreams.

5. If this deal is made, Iran has received the deal of the century and the West has received a very bad and dangerous deal. Iran has also received a significant easing of the sanctions that took years to put in place, without making any significant concession in its plan to become nuclear armed.

6. Israel supports finding a diplomatic solution that will lead to a dismantling of Iran’s military nuclear program. Such a solution must include the dismantling of all of the centrifuges, the removal of all of the enriched uranium and a cessation of the activities of the heavy water reactor.

7. If Iran seeks nuclear energy for civilian purposes, as it claims, it has no need for centrifuges and heavy water. These are only necessary for the purpose of building nuclear weapons. As do 17 other countries around the world (including Canada and Indonesia), which produce nuclear energy without the centrifuges and heavy water.

8. There is no reason for the West to agree to allow a country that so blatantly violates UN Security Council resolutions, takes part in the massacre of Syrian civilians and perpetrates terror throughout the world , to become a nuclear threshold state.

9. In response to the IAEA report: Iran is not expanding its nuclear facilities because they have enough infrastructure to complete the fissile material needed for an atomic bomb. The question is not whether they are expanding the program but rather how it can be halted.

10. Israel will defend itself by itself against any threat posed to it.

ENDS

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