PM Netanyahu Interviewed on ABC
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Sunday, 23 November 2014), was
interviewed on the ABC network program This Week and made the following
remarks:

"I don't know, but I think it's important that there won't be a bad deal. A
bad deal would enable Iran to remain with thousands of centrifuges, which it
could use to enrich uranium which is what you need for a nuclear bomb. It
could do so in a very short time. I think the key principle is this: Don't
dismantle sanctions before you dismantle Iran's capacity to make a nuclear
bomb. And as I understand it, the Iranians are nowhere near to accepting
that and if for any reason the United States or the other powers agree to
leave Iran with that capacity to breakout, I think that would be a historic
mistake. Not only because it endangers my country, Israel, that Iran's
ruler, the Ayatollah Khamenei, vows to annihilate, but also because I think
it would endanger the entire Middle East and the world."

Prime Minister Netanyahu added:

"We're doing everything we can to influence people not to make a bad deal
and of course such a deal is something that would, would leave Iran with the
capacity to threaten everyone. You know, they're developing ICBMs,
intercontinental ballistic missiles. Why in heaven's name does Iran need
intercontinental ballistic missiles? They don't need those missiles to reach
Israel. They need it to reach Europe and the United States, and the only
thing you carry on intercontinental ballistic missiles are nuclear warheads.
So I think that the issue here is not merely Israel, but everyone, the
entire world, all of the – or nearly all of the regimes in the Middle East,
with the exception of the Syrian regime – and everybody else, they
understand that this is a great danger. Israel itself will always reserve
the right to defend itself against any threat with its own power.

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