Today, Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a press conference that the current text of the nuclear agreement is bad and cannot be accepted. He added the deal would not prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear bomb.
He also asked, "How can an agreement be signed with the Iranians that gives them a hundred billion dollars annually as a reward for violating all their obligations?"
He also noted that the current text does not fit the criteria set by US President Joe Biden himself and pledged to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state.
He pointed out that "the Israeli government is conducting an open dialogue with the US administration on all disputed issues, especially since Washington was and still is the closest ally," as he put it.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz confirmed yesterday, Tuesday, that his country will do everything in its power to influence the nuclear agreement, warning the Biden administration that this agreement will allow the transfer of 250 billion dollars to the militias.
Over the past few days, Israel has intensified its meetings with US officials, with the nuclear negotiations approaching a final stage, and it has reiterated its position on refusing to agree with Tehran.
It is noteworthy that the nuclear agreement reached its final stages, after marathon rounds of talks that started last April in Vienna. A final draft was submitted to Washington and Tehran by the Europeans, early this month.
Currently, the remaining parties to the agreement that Washington withdrew from in 2015, (France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia), are waiting for the American response, in order to conclude long months of talks, and announce a new nuclear agreement or perhaps another round of negotiations.
So far Israel has been the only state that is opposed to the nuclear agreement. Many Gulf states embrace the deal. Kuwait and United Arab Emirates are in the process of reopening their embassies in Tehran.