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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is calling on Western countries and US President Joe Biden to call off talks on a new nuclear energy agreement with Iran.
Lapid says a deal would reward Israel’s enemies, and that Biden has failed to keep “red lines” he previously promised to keep.
– The countries in the West draw a red line, the Iranians ignore it and the red line is moved, says the Prime Minister at a press conference in Jerusalem.
According to Lapid, the agreement does not meet “the standards set by President Biden himself – to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon state”.
A previous nuclear energy agreement was concluded in 2015 between the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran. This meant that Iran’s ability to enrich uranium was limited in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions against the country.
In 2018, then US President Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement, which caused Iran to also stop complying with the agreement. Since then, the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, has tried to renew the agreement.