Israel warns against returning to nuclear agreement with Iran

A statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office today, Sunday, stressed that Israel strongly opposes any return to the nuclear agreement reached by Iran and the major world powers in 2015.

“Israel firmly believes that there should be no return to the Iran nuclear agreement,” the statement stressed.

The warning comes less than a month before US President-elect Joe Biden is due to succeed outgoing President Donald Trump, who withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran.

The statement warned that the agreement was “fundamentally flawed,” and considered that it gave Iran a “fast, gold-paved way to establish an infrastructure for a complete arsenal of nuclear bombs.”

He also considered that giving Iran the resources needed to “escalate its aggression” across the Middle East would be significant.

“Israel categorically believes that there can be no return to that bad agreement,” the statement said.

Some European powers express the hope that the spirit of the agreement will be re-established, following conciliatory signals from Biden.

Like Trump, Netanyahu is one of the strongest opponents of the nuclear deal.