Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reiterated on Sunday the calls to dismantle all Iran’s nuclear infrastructurewhile Washington and Tehran participate in conversations for a nuclear agreement.
Until now, the United States and Iran have celebrated three rounds of indirect conversations, mediated by the state of the Gulf Omandestined to seal an agreement that would prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but also lifting the overwhelming economic sanctions imposed by Washington.
After the conversations held in Rome at the beginning of this month, Oman said that the United States and Iran were looking for an agreement that would leave Tehran “completely free” of nuclear weapons and sanctionsbut “maintaining its ability to develop peaceful nuclear energy.”
Netanyahu said that the only “good agreement” would be one that eliminated “all infrastructure”, similar to the 2003 agreement that Libya made with the West that led her to renounce her nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs.
Israeli officials have long promised to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, an affirmation that Netanyahu repeated.
Israel has not ruled out attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months despite the fact that President Donald Trump told Netanyahu that the United States was not willing to support such an operationReuters reported on April 19, citing an Israeli official and two other sources familiar with the matter.
Netanyahu, speaking Sunday night in Jerusalem, said he had told Trump that any nuclear agreement reached with Iran should also prevent Tehran from developing ballistic missiles.
An Iranian official told Reuters this month that Tehran saw his missile program as the main friction point in conversations with the United States.
In April 2024 and again in October 2024, Iran attacked Israel with drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles after Israel kill generals and Iranian officials of Iranian agencies.
“We maintain close contact with the United States. But I said that, in one way or another, Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said at a conference organized by the Jewish News Syndicate, referring to a conversation that he had with Trump.
