Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday that he will work to convince US President Joe Biden to abandon his plan to reenter the Iran nuclear deal, as he readied for his first trip to Washington as premier later this week.
In a planned Thursday meeting with Biden, Bennett said, he will present “an orderly plan that we have formulated in the past two months to curb the Iranians, both in the nuclear sphere and vis-à-vis regional aggression.”
“I will tell President Biden that it is time to stop the Iranians, to stop this thing, not to give them a lifeline in the form of reentering into an expired nuclear deal,” said Bennett at the start of the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday morning. “[The deal] is no longer relevant, even by the standards of those who once thought that it was.”
Bennett is slated to depart Israel on Tuesday afternoon and meet with Biden at the White House on Thursday before returning home that evening. It will be Bennett’s first official overseas visit, and the first time Biden meets an Israeli prime minister since he took office earlier this year.
Despite the ongoing COVID crisis in Israel, “the timing of the visit is very important because we are at a critical point regarding Iran,” Bennett said Sunday.
The prime minister noted that the Iranians are “advancing rapidly with uranium enrichment and has already significantly shortened the time that it would take for them to accumulate the material required for a single nuclear bomb.
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