The United States and Israel are “determined” to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, despite their dispute over a return to an agreement governing Iran’s civilian nuclear program, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday. .
“When it comes to the most important things we are in the same boat: we are each committed, determined, to ensure that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon”, declared Antony Blinken during a press briefing in Jerusalem with his Israeli counterpart, Yaïr Lapid. “The United States believes that returning to full implementation of the JCPOA (Iran’s 2015 nuclear program agreement) is the best way to put Iran’s nuclear program back in the box it was in before it collapsed. escaped when the United States left the agreement “in 2018, under the Trump administration, added Antony Blinken.
Sanctions against Iran upheld
Israel takes a dim view of a possible agreement on the nuclear program of Iran, its number one enemy. “We have a disagreement on the nuclear program and its consequences but are open to an open and honest dialogue”, commented Yaïr Lapid.
“Israel and the United States will therefore work together to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But at the same time Israel will do whatever needs to be done to stop Iran’s nuclear program,” he added.
At the same time, the United States announces that it will maintain sanctions against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, even in the event of a nuclear agreement, the American envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said on Sunday. of the Doha Forum in Qatar.
They ‘will remain sanctioned under US law and our perception (of them) will always be the same’, the diplomat says, as Tehran demands that the US remove the Revolutionary Guards from its list of organizations terrorists.
“We are quite close” to an agreement
On Saturday, Iran confirmed that this withdrawal was among the points still under discussion in the negotiations to revive the Iranian nuclear agreement. In Doha, where political and economic leaders are meeting, Robert Malley warned that an agreement was neither “inevitable” nor “very close”.
“We’re pretty close,” he said of the negotiations, but “we’ve been pretty close now for a while. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about the difficulty of the questions” addressed. Also present in Doha, Kamal Kharazi, a former Iranian foreign minister and now adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, argued that the Revolutionary Guards were “the national army and the national army cannot be placed on the list of terrorist organisations”.