Senior Israeli officials: MOU endangers Israel’s security; nuclear and other key issues unresolved; US giving up military leverage

Senior Israeli officials quoted in a Channel 12 report say that the emerging US-Iran deal indicates that Washington has agreed to Tehran’s “main conditions,” adding that “the Iranians are not agreeing to this for nothing.”

The report says Israeli officials and experts who have worked for decades on the Iran file consider that the terms of the MOU apparently set to be signed tomorrow “endanger Israel’s security interests.”

What will happen immediately “is the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, the resuscitation of the regime, and a slap in the face for the Iranian public,” the officials say.

Iran is “paying on credit” with this framework, the officials say, with Tehran only agreeing to discuss its nuclear program once the war formally ends and a number of other conditions are met, including the release of frozen Iranian funds.

“This is the same framework as the agreement to end the war in Gaza,” an official tells the TV station. “Ask yourself what has happened since then with the commitment to disarm Hamas? What will be the Americans’ essential leverage if, after 60 days of a ceasefire, the Iranians do not begin the steps required of them? The credible military threat has been all but eroded.”

“The uranium extraction has become uranium dilution and the missile system is not part of the agreement at all,” the officials lament, noting that the main issues that Israel was hoping to deal with during the war remain unaddressed.

“All the goals that Israel set are not immediately dealt with in the agreement. Not only is Iran not required to stop supporting proxies, it is reconnecting itself with Hezbollah through the agreement,” the officials add.