Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday outlined what he said were key conditions required for an agreement including curbs on its ballistic missiles program.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not hide from you that I expressed my skepticism of any deal with Iran because, frankly, Iran is reliable on one thing: they lie and they cheat,\u201d Netanyahu said, speaking at the Conference of Presidents\u2019 51st Annual National Leadership Mission.<\/p>\n
He said any deal should include several components he views as essential not only for Israel\u2019s security but for that of the United States and the wider world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first is that all enriched material has to leave Iran. The second is that there should be no enrichment capability, not stopping the enrichment process, but dismantle the equipment and the infrastructure that allows you to enrich in the first place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu added that an agreement should also address Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program, citing a 300-kilometer range limit under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s an MTCR limitation of 300 kilometers, and Iran is supposed to adhere to it. Of course, it doesn’t,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n
He added that any agreement should also address its support for Iran\u2019s regional allied groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the fourth is\u2026 dismantle the axis of terror that Iran has built. It’s been smashed, but it’s still there, and it’s trying to recover, as Iran itself is trying to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also cited the need for inspections.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the last thing is, remember Ronald Reagan’s dictum vis-\u00e0-vis the Soviet Union: Trust but verify, distrust, distrust, and always verify. So there has to be real inspections, substantive inspections, no lead-time inspections, but effective inspections for all of the above,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday outlined what he said were key conditions required for an agreement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,166405,166402,166400,1570,166403,166398,166401,166399,166404,129,3,21,19,22,20,25,3667,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-470545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iran-and-china","11":"tag-iran-covid","12":"tag-iran-economy","13":"tag-iran-government","14":"tag-iran-media-iran-and-the-united-states","15":"tag-iran-news","16":"tag-iran-nuclear","17":"tag-iran-politics","18":"tag-iran-us","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-sanctions","27":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}