The Washington State Department responded to a joint statement issued yesterday (Friday) by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid calling on President Biden not to remove Iran’s Revolutionary Guards from the United States’ terror list as part of a nuclear deal.
“We will not negotiate publicly or respond to allegations of sanctions that we will be willing to remove as part of a reciprocal nuclear deal,” he told the Walla! A spokesman for the U.S. State Department said. Is under the nuclear agreement. “
Bennett and Lapid published a statement yesterday in which they commented on the publication in Walla! Last Wednesday, the Biden administration was considering removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guards from the United States’ terror list in exchange for an Iranian commitment to “maintain calm” in the region. Bennett and Lapid called such a move an “insult to the victims” of Iranian terrorism and noted that it would be an “abandonment” of US closest allies “in exchange for empty promises of terrorists.”
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The senior US State Department official said that an Iranian nuclear program that is not under restrictions as it has been since the retirement of former US President Donald Trump from the nuclear deal has led to an escalating nuclear crisis. “It has only increased the threats against American citizens, against American interests and against US partners in the Middle East,” he stressed.
According to a senior State Department official, the United States and Israel have a common interest in Iran not having nuclear weapons. “We have made it clear that a reciprocal return to the nuclear deal is the best diplomatic way to achieve that goal,” he said.
He added that Israel and the United States also have a common interest in curbing Iranian aggression in a region that is not directly related to the nuclear issue such as supporting terrorism. “Under any return to the nuclear deal the United States will continue to aggressively use the tools at its disposal to address this issue and specifically stop the Revolutionary Guards in coordination with our allies in the Middle East,” the Washington State Department official said.
PM Naftali Bennett (Photo: Mark Israel Salem)Talks between the United States and Iran over a return to the 2015 nuclear deal are almost over, but Iran is demanding that President Biden overturn President Trump’s decision to put the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the black list of US government terrorist organizations. This issue is the main point of contention left on the way to the agreement.
Israeli officials said the Biden administration had informed the Israeli government that the possibility of removing the Revolutionary Guards from the terrorist list was being considered. However, senior officials in the Biden administration have told their Israeli counterparts that the president has not yet made a final decision on the issue.
According to senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem, they are very concerned about such an American move and especially the fact that the United States demands from Iran only a general commitment to calm the region and does not require it to commit not to attack American targets or US allies in Israel including Israel.