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23 August 2021

Ahead of a visit to Washington, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the Israeli cabinet that “we are at a critical point regarding Iran. Iran is advancing rapidly with uranium enrichment and has already significantly shortened the time that it would take them to accumulate the material required for a single nuclear bomb… Iran is behaving in a bullying and aggressive manner throughout the region. I will tell President Biden that it is time to stop the Iranians”. Arguing against the U.S. giving Iran “a lifeline in the form of re-entering into an expired nuclear deal”, Bennett added: “We are not content with just that. We will present an orderly plan that we have formulated… to curb the Iranians, both in the nuclear sphere and vis-à-vis regional aggression”.

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