SpaceDaily.com reports: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said Tuesday that Iran's atomic drive ‘will be stopped’, a day after an
interim agreement bringing sanctions relief for Tehran took effect.
‘Iran's military nuclear programme must be stopped, and Iran's military nuclear programme will be stopped,’ Netanyahu said at a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, without saying how.
Israel has long warned that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to the Jewish state, and has refused to rule out a military strike to prevent that from happening.
Netanyahu fought a major diplomatic campaign against the so-called Geneva Agreement which was hammered out in November between world powers and Iran, and on Monday he said the agreement would not succeed in stopping Tehran.
‘The interim agreement which went into force today does not prevent Iran from realizing its intention to develop nuclear weapons,’ he told the Israeli parliament.
His remarks came just hours after the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Iran had halted production of 20 percent enriched uranium, marking the entry into force of the landmark deal with the P5+1 group of world powers.
The international community also kept its part of the deal, with both the European Union and United States separately announcing they were easing crippling sanctions on Iran.
The deal, which was signed in Geneva, came about after nearly a decade of failed negotiations over its disputed nuclear program, which the West believes is a front for building a military capability.
Tehran has denied the charge...
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‘Iran's military nuclear programme must be stopped, and Iran's military nuclear programme will be stopped,’ Netanyahu said at a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, without saying how.
Israel has long warned that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to the Jewish state, and has refused to rule out a military strike to prevent that from happening.
Netanyahu fought a major diplomatic campaign against the so-called Geneva Agreement which was hammered out in November between world powers and Iran, and on Monday he said the agreement would not succeed in stopping Tehran.
‘The interim agreement which went into force today does not prevent Iran from realizing its intention to develop nuclear weapons,’ he told the Israeli parliament.
His remarks came just hours after the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Iran had halted production of 20 percent enriched uranium, marking the entry into force of the landmark deal with the P5+1 group of world powers.
The international community also kept its part of the deal, with both the European Union and United States separately announcing they were easing crippling sanctions on Iran.
The deal, which was signed in Geneva, came about after nearly a decade of failed negotiations over its disputed nuclear program, which the West believes is a front for building a military capability.
Tehran has denied the charge...
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