PM Netanyahu's Statement on Iran
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
[For video:
https://youtu.be/7KDT9uwrJJQ ]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the following statement today
(Wednesday, 1 April 2015):

"Yesterday an Iranian general brazenly declared and I quote: 'Israel's
destruction is non-negotiable', but evidently giving Iran's murderous regime
a clear path to the bomb is negotiable. This is unconscionable. I agree with
those who have said that Iran's claim that its nuclear program is only for
peaceful purposes doesn't square with Iran's insistence on keeping
underground nuclear facilities, advanced centrifuges and a heavy water
reactor. Nor does it square with Iran's insistence on developing ICBMs and
its refusal to come clean with the IAEA on its past weaponization efforts.
At the same time, Iran is accelerating its campaign of terror, subjugation
and conquest throughout the region, most recently in Yemen.

The concessions offered to Iran in Lausanne would ensure a bad deal that
would endanger Israel, the Middle East and the peace of the world. Now is
the time for the international community to insist on a better deal. A
better deal would significantly roll back Iran's nuclear infrastructure. A
better deal would link the eventual lifting of the restrictions on Iran's
nuclear program to a change in Iran's behavior. Iran must stop its
aggression in the region, stop its terrorism throughout the world and stop
its threats to annihilate Israel. That should be non-negotiable and that's
the deal that the world powers must insist upon.



Thank you."