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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alarming at the Biden administration’s efforts. Re-broker of the Iran nuclear deal, He warns that it will create a “nuclear powder keg” from the Middle East.
The former prime minister has issued a stern warning of the dangerous consequences of restarting the deal and how it will affect the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and beyond.
“Other countries in the Middle East will go after their own nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said. “The Fox and His Friends” Wednesday. “So this deal, which is supposed to stop the nuclear weapons in the Middle East and the proliferation of weapons of mass death in this neighborhood and beyond, will actually lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the Middle East will be crossed with nuclear weapons. It will make the Middle East a powder keg, a nuclear powder keg.”
“This is insane,” he continued. “This is the height of stupidity. This should not be done.”
ISRAEL SAYS IRAN REJECTED THE FINAL NUCLEAR DEAL OFFER
FILE – This January. January 13, 2015, file photo released by Iranian Presidential Office, President Hassan Rouhani visiting the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside Bushehr, Iran.
(AP Photo/Iran Presidential Office, Mohammad Berno, File)
A report released earlier this week said the Biden administration is closer to accepting a deal amid ongoing negotiations. concessions made previously served as a barricade.
Some of the requests that are currently denied are reportedly related to the terrorist designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and investigations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“I think this is a terrible deal, a dangerous deal that will pave the way for Iran with gold, a gold-paved highway to a nuclear arsenal,” Netanyahu said. “If Iran has nuclear weapons, they don’t just threaten my country, Israel, or the entire Middle East and America’s allies. They threaten you directly because while they’re developing nuclear weapons, they’re also developing ways to get them across continents.”
“So you can have an Iran led by these fanatical Ayatollahs who will hold every American city hostage to nuclear weapons,” he continued. “I think this is a threat to world peace, and this terrible deal makes it easy. It’s even worse than the first.”
The Biden administration has come under criticism for pushing to revive the nuclear deal with Iran. Assassination plots targeting Trump administration officials appeared in the past few weeks.
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Critics worry that restarting the deal will only fuel Iran’s terror regime and backfire both regionally and internationally.
Biden “understands” the concerns of Israel and neighboring countries, but is determined to rejoin the JCPOA and use diplomacy as a tool to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities, National Security Council coordinator John Kirby told Fox News on Tuesday. told.
