Yesterday evening, Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz called for exploiting the current situation in Iran to put pressure on it, leading to a "new and improved" nuclear agreement.

Gantz announced his position at the beginning of the annual "Jewish Media Summit" conference organized by the Israeli government press office, in front of more than 100 journalists from local and international media.

The Israeli minister considered that Iran poses a global and regional challenge and a threat to Israel, and said that just as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) acts in a coordinated manner regarding the war in Ukraine, "we must push our partners in the international community to deal with Iran in a coordinated manner," he said.

He warned that Iran would not go beyond the point of no return in its nuclear project, and said that time is crucial, "Iran is currently suffering from internal problems, economic difficulties and an international reaction to its supply of weapons to Russia. Now, military, intelligence and political cooperation must be deepened."

And he stressed that if these efforts fail, then "the use of force and a show of force must be combined in the face of Iranian aggression, and the activity must now focus on prevention before it is too late."


nuclear weapons

Tel Aviv and regional and Western capitals - led by Washington - accuse Iran of seeking to produce nuclear weapons, while Tehran says its program is designed for peaceful purposes, especially electricity generation.

Last Saturday, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Islamic, revealed that the level of uranium enrichment in his country had more than doubled.

On December 5, Iran announced that it would not accept the resumption of negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal under pressure and threats, and would not make concessions.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said at the time that the negotiations have their own logic, explaining that his country adhered to the comprehensive joint action plan in the nuclear agreement, but the United States of America withdrew from the agreement in 2018.

Kanaani continued, stressing that Iran is still committed to the negotiation process and seeks to resolve it, but it will not negotiate on the basis of the need for negotiations, and the West's need for negotiation is no less than Iran's need for it, and the agreement is available and the parties concerned can reach it in the shortest possible time, he said.


revive the agreement

Since April 2021, indirect talks have been taking place between Tehran and Washington in the Austrian capital, Vienna, to revive the nuclear agreement.

In May 2018, US President Donald Trump announced his country's withdrawal from the agreement reached in 2015 between Iran on the one hand and the 5 + 1 group of countries, which includes the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China, in addition to Germany.

This agreement imposed restrictions on Iran's nuclear program to prevent it from producing nuclear weapons in return for lifting international economic sanctions imposed on it.