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Israeli Minister Warns Israel Could Attack Iran if Biden Rejoins Nuclear Deal
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Posted on January 13, 2021
Likud minister Tzachi Hanegbi said Israel does not expect Trump will attack Iran before he leaves office
Israeli officials have made it clear in recent weeks that they are opposed to Joe Biden’s plans to return with diplomacy with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
Ramping up the rhetoric, a minister from Israel’s Likud Party threatened an attack on Iran’s nuclear program if the US returns to the JCPOA. Tzachi Hanegbi, who is seen as a close ally to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made the threat in an interview with Israel’s Kan News on Wednesday.
“If the United States government rejoins the nuclear deal — and that seems to be the stated policy as of now — the practical result will be that Israel will again be alone against Iran, Hanegbi said. He said reviving the JCPOA means the world would give Iran a “green light” to continue its “nuclear weapons program.”
“This of course we will not allow. We’ve already twice done what needed to be done, in 1981 against the Iraqi nuclear program and in 2007 against the Syrian nuclear program,” he said, referring to Israeli airstrikes on Syrian and Iraqi nuclear reactors.
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