Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that he hopes the UN nuclear agency’s Board of Governors, which is now meeting, will issue a clear warning to Iran about its nuclear program.
“We hope that the Board of Governors will issue a warning signal to the regime in Tehran and make it clear that if they continue with their defiant nuclear policy, they will pay a heavy price,” Bennett said in televised remarks at a parliamentary committee meeting.
Bennett met last week with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency ahead of the council meeting and told him that Israel would prefer a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Iran but could take independent action, reiterating a long-standing veiled threat. to launch a preventive war.
The United States, France, the United Kingdom and Germany are pushing for the IAEA Board of Governors to reprimand Iran for not answering long-standing questions about uranium traces in undeclared locations.
A rebuke would likely anger Iran and could damage prospects for bailing out the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. Indirect talks on that between Iran and the United States are already stalled.
Israel regards the prospect of Iran developing nuclear weapons as a threat to its existence. Iran, for its part, says its nuclear program is peaceful.
(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch)
Source: CNN Brasil
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