Excerpt from PM Netanyahu's Speech at the Opening of the 20th Knesset
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Tuesday, 31 March 2015), addressed
the opening of the 20th Knesset. Following is an excerpt from his remarks:

"The greatest threat to our security and to our future was and remains
Iran's effort to arm itself with nuclear weapons.

The agreement being formulated in Lausanne paves the way to this outcome.

It seems that it will leave in Iran's possession underground installations,
the nuclear reactor at Arak and advanced centrifuges, the same things that
only a few months ago we were told – and rightly so – were not essential to
a nuclear program designed for peaceful purposes.

Iran's breakout time for achieving fissile material for nuclear bombs will
not be measured in years, as was said at the outset; in our assessment the
time has been reduced to less than a year, probably much less.

And all of this is before taking into account the ballistic missiles that
Iran is continuing to manufacture, the ongoing development of advanced
centrifuges, Iran's obdurate refusal to reveal to the IAEA its activities to
develop nuclear weapons and, I add, Iran's campaign of conquest and
terrorism – which is open to all, everyone sees it, before our very eyes –
from the Golan Heights to Yemen, from Iraq to Gaza and so many other
places."