Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Iran's entire nuclear infrastructure must to be dismantled.
This was as Washington and Tehran engaged in talks for a nuclear accord.
DAILY POST reports that the United States and Iran have so far held three rounds of indirect talks, mediated by Gulf state Oman, aimed at sealing a deal that would block Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but also lift crippling economic sanctions imposed by Washington.
Oman, after talks in Rome earlier this month, said that the US and Iran were pursuing an accord that would see Tehran completely free of nuclear weapons and sanctions but maintaining its ability to develop peaceful nuclear energy.
According to Netanyahu, the only good deal would be one that removed all of the infrastructure similar to the 2003 agreement that Libya made with the West that saw it give up its nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programmes.
On Monday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Tehran was confident it could thwart attempts to sabotage its foreign policy or dictate its course, adding that he hoped his US counterparts would be equally steadfast.
“What is striking is how brazenly Netanyahu is now dictating what President Trump can and cannot do in his diplomacy with Iran,” Araqchi wrote on X.
Israel has not ruled out attacking Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months, despite President Donald Trump telling Netanyahu that the US was for now unwilling to support such an operation.
Speaking late on Sunday in Jerusalem, the Israeli Prime Minister said that he had told Trump that any nuclear agreement reached with Iran should also prevent Tehran from developing ballistic missiles.
Recall that in April 2024 and again in October 2024, Iran attacked Israel with drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles after Israel had killed Iranian generals and officials from Iranian proxies.
“We are in close contact with the United States. But I said, one way or the other, Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said.
