Netanyahu Warns Israel Will “Act” Against Iran If Biden Restores Nuclear Deal

• Netanyahu Warns Israel Will “Act” Against Iran If Biden Restores Nuclear Deal
  by Dave DeCamp, https://news.antiwar.com/, via https://www.zerohedge.com/
  While talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, kicked off in Vienna, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against the agreement and said Israel must “act” against Tehran.
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  “The danger that Iran will return — and this time with an international imprimatur — to a path that will allow it to develop a nuclear arsenal is on our doorstep on this very day,” Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party in the Knesset on Tuesday.
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  Like most Israeli officials, Netanyahu claims the JCPOA is somehow a path to a nuclear-armed Iran even though the agreement puts strict limits on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. And after the JCPOA expires, Iran would still be bound by the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Israel refuses to sign since it has a secret nuclear weapons program.
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  “We cannot go back to the dangerous nuclear plan, because a nuclear Iran is an existential threat and a very big threat to the security of the whole world,” Netanyahu said.
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  Netanyahu also said Israel should take action against Iran. “We must act against the fanatical regime in Iran that is simply threatening to erase us from the earth,” he said.
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  Israeli officials have threatened to attack Iran if the Biden administration returns to the JCPOA, and Israel frequently takes covert action against Tehran to stoke tensions in the region. Reports on Tuesday said an Iranian ship was targeted by a limpet mine in the Red Sea, a type of attack Israel has a history of carrying out in the region.
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  The talks in Vienna established working groups that will determine the actions needed to be taken by the US and Iran to revive the JCPOA. While there still seems to be a long way to go, and the US isn’t lifting sanctions right away, Iran’s chief negotiator describes Tuesday’s talks as “constructive.”
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• Israel Has 80-90 Nukes, SIPRI Report Says, as Tel Aviv Continues to Accuse Iran of Nuclear Obsession
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Israel, which routinely accuses Iran of trying to obtain nuclear weapons and pledges to use force to stop Tehran, maintains its own undeclared nuclear arsenal estimated at 80 to 90, according to the latest report by SIPRI.
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  There are nine nations in the world that currently have nuclear weapons, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says in its newly released yearbook on the state of armaments and international security. The world nuclear stockpile went from 14,465 at the beginning of last year to about 13,865 this year, the report estimates, as the US and Russia were delivering on their promises under the New START Treaty signed in 2010.
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  Israel, which maintains a policy of neither confirming nor denying the possession of nuclear weapons, has between 80 and 90 warheads in its stockpile, the same as the year before, the institute said.
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  It comes as tensions between Iran on one side, and the US and regional ally Israel on the other, continue to mount. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s unsinkable prime minister, has for years waged a campaign accusing the Iranians of having unwavering nuclear ambitions, regardless of the evidence, or lack thereof.
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“Iran doesn’t frighten me and I don’t think it should frighten the American people. They don’t have a bomb. They haven’t made a decision to build one. They don’t have the means to deliver one. And the Israelis have 300 atomic bombs! I mean who presents the existential threat to whom?” – Pat Buchanan (7:58 onwards)

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