Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Tuesday that the United States is \u201cvery naive\u201d if it believes Iran will abandon its nuclear program, hinting that Israel \u201cmay act alone\u201d against Tehran. In an interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 7, Ben-Gvir stated: \u201cThe Americans are very naive if they think the Iranians will abandon their nuclear program and cancel it, and give up their dreams of destroying Israel.\u201d He added: \u201cIt is Israel\u2019s responsibility to confront this Iranian threat and act against it alone.\u201d The extremist minister said \u201cno circumstances\u201d could force Israel to work \u201caccording to the dictates of a friend, even if that friend is truly great.\u201d<\/p>\n
US-Israel tensions<\/p>\n
Differences have recently emerged between the US and Israel over Tel Aviv\u2019s military offensive in Lebanon amid ongoing talks between Washington and Tehran to reach a lasting peace agreement. The US and Israel launched a war on Iran on Feb. 28, triggering retaliatory attacks from Tehran that targeted US assets across the Middle East. The fighting was halted on April 8 under a Pakistan-mediated ceasefire. President Trump and Iranian President Pezeshkian electronically signed a memorandum of understanding on June 17 aimed at reaching a lasting peace agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Tuesday that the United States is \u201cvery naive\u201d if it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[233349,85,87,46,43,208],"class_list":["post-507856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bengvir","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}