Israel’s Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer says it would be a “mistake” for the incoming Biden administration to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal as President-elect Joe Biden pledged to do during the campaign.
“I think it would be a mistake and hopefully he will look at the Middle East as it is, he will see the benefits of [the normalization] process, of how he can continue that process, and I think to not go back into the same deal,” Dermer says on a panel with his Emirati and Bahraini counterparts in Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba and Abdulla Al Khalifa.
The Israeli envoy maintains that both Israel and Arab states opposed the 2015 multilateral agreement and that their views should have been taken into consideration by the Obama administration.
Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Dermer highlights that in nuclear talks with North Korea, members in the region such as Japan and North Korea had been in the room, which was not the case during the Iran nuclear talks.
“The first thing I would say to the incoming administration: ‘Sit with your allies in the region. Listen to us. We have the most skin in the game. We have the most to lose. Speak to us. Try to work out a common position, which I think is possible, not only to do with nuclear issues but also to deal with the regional aggression of Iran,'” Dermer says.
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