Israel will not be bound by any new nuclear deal between Iran and worldpowers, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday.
“The mistake we made after the first nuclear deal in 2015 will not repeatitself,” Bennett said in statements at the Reichman University in Herzliya.
“From the moment the deal was signed, it was like a sleeping pill for us,”he said, adding that even if the deal will be revived, Israel will not bebound by it.
The Israeli premier pledged that Tel Aviv will maintain freedom of action,stressing that Israel must utilize its advantages, including its economy,cyber prowess, democracy, and international legitimacy against Iran’sweaknesses.
If the world turns a blind eye to the negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclearprogram, Israel does not intend to do so, Bennett said.
“We face complicated times. It is possible that there will be disagreementswith the best of our friends,” he said, adding that this would not be thefirst time.
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The nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by Iran, the US, China, Russia, France,the UK, Germany, and the EU.
Under the agreement, Tehran committed itself to limiting its nuclearactivity to civilian purposes and in return, world powers agreed to dropeconomic sanctions against Iran.
But the US, under former President Donald Trump, unilaterally withdrew fromthe agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran tostop complying with the deal.
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