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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Minister says US exit from Iran deal will force Tehran to abandon nukes
A senior cabinet minister says US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement will force the Islamic Republic to abandon its pursuit of a bomb for good.
Intelligence Minister Israel Katz says that “Iran has two options — to align or to fold and crumble.” Speaking to the Herzliya Conference, an annual security gathering north of Tel Aviv, Katz says if Iran doesn’t truly shut down its nuclear ambitions “it will encounter the US economic power, and we know the state of the Iranian economy.”
Katz adds that the 2015 international nuclear deal “was leading toward a nuclear weapon.”
— AP
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