Joe Biden to Yair Lapid: We will never tie Israel’s hands against Iran
“We will never tie Israel’s hands,” US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said, quoting Biden. “We are aware of the danger from Iran.”
Updated: SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 17:48Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger
US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid meet on the second day of Biden's visit (photo credit: KOBI GIDEON/GPO)
US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid meet on the second day of Biden's visit
(photo credit: KOBI GIDEON/GPO)
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The US will never stop Israel from defending itself against Iran, US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Yair Lapid, according to US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides.
“We will never tie Israel’s hands,” Nides said, quoting Biden. “We are aware of the danger from Iran.”
Biden also repeated his commitment that Iran will never attain a nuclear weapon, according to the ambassador.
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Nides says US will accept diplomatic solution with Iran
“The administration is interested in a diplomatic solution, but only based on the conditions in the EU draft” of a renewed Iran nuclear deal, the ambassador stated.
"The administration is interested in a diplomatic solution, but only based on the conditions in the EU draft"
US Amb. to Israel Tom Nides, on the Iran nuclear deal
Ambassador Tom Nides in his office at the US Embassy in Jerusalem. (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Ambassador Tom Nides in his office at the US Embassy in Jerusalem. (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
“Our stance is clear,” Nides said. “We are listening to Israel’s stance. Take, for example, the topic of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps” not being removed from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
As for Mossad head David Barnea’s visit to Washington this week, in which he plans to hold meetings at CIA Headquarters, the Pentagon, the State Department and more, Nides said: “We know there are Israelis who oppose an agreement. We are in constant contact. He is welcome to the US and to meet with everyone.”
Barnea also briefed members of Congress visiting Israel on Monday.
The US will not allow for an Iran deal to include the closing of International Atomic Energy Agency investigations into traces of enriched uranium found in undeclared nuclear sites, Nides said, referring to one of Tehran’s demands since the EU tabled its draft in July.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a news conference on Monday that “an end to the agency’s probes is part of the guarantees that we are seeking to have a sustainable and durable nuclear agreement.”
US foreign relations lawmaker: IAEA must complete probe
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said, during a press conference in Jerusalem, that he “hope[s] the IAEA will remain committed to the portfolio it opened on Iran to ascertain sites undeclared by the Iranians and what transpired there.
“There can be no real agreement if there isn’t a conclusion, and the conclusion would only lead us to is that Iran did seek to develop nuclear weapons,” Menendez stated.
Israel opposes the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, which restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. The limitations on uranium enrichment, centrifuges and other aspects of the nuclear program would gradually expire by 2030 in a series of “sunset clauses,” with a major restriction on centrifuge development lifted at the end of next year.
The sunset clauses would remain intact and on the same schedule and all US sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program, among others, would be lifted, according to the latest draft of a renewed deal, proposed by the European Union, the nuclear talks’ coordinator. Former US president Donald Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018, imposing more sanctions, but Biden has promised to return to the agreement.
Iran submitted its latest response to the deal last week and the US said publicly that Iran’s demands were not constructive.
Menendez said that, if the US and Iran do reach an agreement to return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, he “can’t imagine it will be any better than the first iteration,” which he opposed.
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“Time and circumstances have allowed Iran to advance its nuclear enrichment program,” the senator said. “We cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear bomb. It is rather clear that is their intention, despite their denials.”
"We cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear bomb. It is rather clear that is their intention, despite their denials"
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Under US law, any agreement lifting sanctions on Iran requires Congressional review. A two-thirds vote by Congress could prevent the agreement from moving forward.
Menendez said it remains unclear whether there are enough votes to block a deal but that “the process in of itself will be telling about the nature of the agreement and whether it is worthy of support.”
If there is an agreement that survives Congressional review, Menendez and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plan to “have legislation continuing to review the Iran portfolio,” and have the executive branch report on it to Congress quarterly.
Graham said that he found in his meetings that “the Israeli people seem to be united around the idea that the world should be wary of Iran” and he learned “pretty chilling information about the ambitions of Iran as a nuclear regime.”
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