The newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to step up his efforts to derail a return to the Iran nuclear deal by airing his opposition openly and in public.
“We will act powerfully and openly on the international level against the return to the nuclear agreement — not only in talks with leaders behind closed doors, but also powerfully and openly in the arena of global public opinion,” Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The Israeli prime minister, who was sworn in last week after 18 months in opposition, said that the nuclear agreement hasn’t been totally scrapped as it was presented in public.
Netanyahu has long been among the original deal’s most vocal opponents, arguing that it provides Iran a pathway to a nuclear arsenal that would pose an existential threat to Israel.
The nuclear talk has been suspended since Iran and the US could not reach an agreement on their expectations. The deal has especially been affected by the recent popular uprisings that calls for a change of regime in Iran.
