PM urges world powers to toughen stance

With some two days to the deadline for the nuclear negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s not too late for the West to make additional demands.

The prime minister, speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, refers to the recent State Department report condemning Iran’s human rights record and says the West is “turning a blind eye” to Tehran’s actions.

“In practice, there is no demand that Iran change its behavior and there is a total disregard for its violations, its radical demands, and the concessions to Iran are growing,” he says.

“We see before our very eyes that the world powers are retreating from the red lines they set for themselves recently and publicly. There is no reason to rush to sign this bad deal, which becomes worse every day. It’s not too late to go back and make demands that will really prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and will prevent it from receiving funds that will sponsor its aggression, its expansion, and the terror attacks that it carries out all over the world.”

Netanyahu condemns the weekend terror attacks in Tunisia, France, and Kuwait, adding that the attacks are minor compared to the day-to-day activities of an Iran-backed Syria.

“While the world is dismayed, and rightly so, by the terror attacks that were carried out last weekend by radical Islam, at the same time, in three countries and three continents, one must remember that Iran assists the Assad regime to carry out a slaughter similar to [the weekend attacks] daily,” he says.