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After months of negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday there are “encouraging signs” that the US and European allies will not accept a new nuclear deal with Iran.
“After the Americans, yesterday the E3 countries announced that a nuclear deal with Iran will not be signed in the near future,” said Lapid, referring to France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
“Israel is conducting a successful diplomatic campaign to stop the nuclear deal and prevent the lifting of sanctions on Iran. It is not over yet. There is still a long way to go, but there are encouraging signs.”
In this file photo dated Monday, December 23, 2019, published by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, showing technicians from the secondary circuit of the Arak heavy water reactor, as officials and media visit the site, near Arak , 150 miles southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran.
(Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, FILE)
Iran began enriching uranium following the restrictions of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action after former President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reset tough sanctions.
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The UN nuclear agency said in a report this week that Iran has enriched uranium by up to 60 percent.
“The Agency is unable to provide guarantees on Iranian nuclear power [program] it is exclusively peaceful, “the nuclear control body said in the report.
In this photo published on January 13, 2015 by the Iranian president’s office, former president Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside Bushehr, Iran.
(Photo AP / Office of the Iranian Presidency, Mohammad Berno, File)
Iran presented a proposal earlier this month to the European Union, which has mediated negotiations between Tehran and Washington for months, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was not productive.
“In the past few weeks, we have filled in some gaps. Iran had turned away from some extraneous requests, requests unrelated to the JCPOA itself,” Blinken told NATO headquarters in Belgium on Friday.
“However, the last answer brings us back and we have no intention of accepting an agreement that does not meet our basic requirements.”
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Lapid traveled to Germany on Sunday to discuss the nuclear deal with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
