PM Netanyahu Interviewed on the BBC
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed today (Monday, 24 November
2014), on the BBC and made the following remarks:

"No deal is better than a bad deal. The deal that Iran was pushing for was
terrible. The deal would have left Iran with the ability to enrich uranium
for an atom bomb while removing the sanctions. The right deal that is needed
is to dismantle Iran's capacity to make atomic bombs and only then dismantle
the sanctions. Since that's not in the offing, this result is better, a lot
better.

Well, I think Iran should not have any capacity to enrich. There's no right
to enrich. What do you need to enrich uranium for if you're not developing
an atomic bomb? They are. How do we know that? Because they're developing
intercontinental ballistic missiles. What do you do with such missiles? The
only reason you build ICBMs is to launch a nuclear warhead. So Iran, I think
everybody understands, is unabashedly seeking to develop atomic bombs and I
think they shouldn't have the capacity either to enrich uranium or to
deliver nuclear warheads. And I think that's the position that the P5+1, the
leading powers of the world, should take. What is the justification of not
taking this position? They say, well, it offends Iranian pride. So what? I
mean, if this position was taken in the 1930s against Germany, it would have
offended German pride, but it would have saved millions and millions of
lives. You do not want to give this medievalist regime in Iran, that throws
acid in the faces of women, that oppresses gays, that subjugates an entire
population, that exports terrorism far and wide – don't give these violent
medievalists atomic bombs. That's not a good thing for the future of the
world and its security.

Well I hope, I hope that the pressures continue. I mean, the fact that
there's no deal now gives an opportunity to continue the economic pressures
that have proven to be the only thing that brought Iran to the table, to
continue them, to toughen them. I think that's the road that has to be
taken. But of course Israel is watching very carefully what is happening
here and Israel always, always reserves the right to defend itself."

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