Iran as a nuclear power would endanger world: Israeli PM
German Chancellor Scholz and Israeli Prime Minister Lapid have held talks on topics including the nuclear deal with Iran. Lapid stressed the danger that would be posed by a nuclear-armed Iran.
"Returning to the agreement under current conditions would be a mistake," Lapid said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz following talks in Berlin.
It is Lapid's first visit to Germany as premier.
Controversial deal
Germany and the European Union were among the signatories of the deal, which Israel has always opposed as insufficient. The US withdrew from the deal in 2018 under former President Donald Trump, leading to Iran departing from some terms of the agreement.
Talks to revive the agreement, under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions, have resumed but so far without success.
Germany is among the countries urging its revival.
Speaking previously to Lapid, Scholz said that European partners had made proposals and that there was no reason for Iran not to agree.
He said he regretted that Tehran had not responded positively in the nuclear talks.
"We remain patient, but we also remain clear: Iran must be prevented from being able to deploy nuclear weapons," Scholz said.
Defense cooperation
The two leaders also spoke of German-Israeli cooperation on defense.
Lapid said that Israel would help build Germany's new defense force, mainly with regard to air defense.
The Israeli prime minister also said that his country could help replace gas previously supplied by Russia, which Moscow has cut off amid tensions over its invasion of Ukraine.
Israel can deliver about 10% of the gas Europe received from Russia last year, he said.
"We are going to be part of the effort to replace Russian gas in Europe," he added.
The two leaders are later due to join with Holocaust survivors who came from Israel with Lapid in visiting Wannsee in Berlin, where high-ranking Nazis met in 1942 to plan the mass murder of the Jews.
Lapid himself is the son of a Holocaust survivor.
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