After PM raises Mossad op, Abe said to stand behind Iranian nuclear deal

The Prime Minister’s Office releases a statement saying Benjamin Netanyahu raised the issue of Iran during his sit-down with his Japanese counterpart where he asserted that the nuclear deal “is based on lies.” However Japanese officials tell the Haaretz daily that Shinzo Abe stood behind his country’s support for the 2015 agreement.

Netanyahu raises the material that the Mossad recovered in its intelligence operation earlier this year in Tehran that the prime minister says proves Iran lied about its nuclear program, the PMO says.

“Iran kept all the (nuclear) plans. Those who do not want nuclear weapons do not make plans and certainly do not keep them,” Netanyahu tells Abe according to the PMO statement.

The prime minister calls the Iranian nuclear deal “a bad agreement based on the lies and scams of Iran.”

But Abe told the Israeli premier that the Iranian nuclear deal helps bring stability to the region, Haaretz reports.

The Hebrew daily also says that the Japanese prime minister stressed his support for the two-state solution, telling Netanyahu that Tokyo would not move its embassy to Jerusalem until final status issues are resolved.

Abe also asked Netanyahu to restrain settlement construction.