Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to continue the “battle” on Monday “during a Holocaust ceremony attended by Iran’s exiled crown prince, to stop Tehran from gaining nuclear weapons.
The world has changed since Nazi Germany, but the demands for our extinction have not stopped; now they emanate from the terror regime in Iran, Netanyahu said, recalling a recent trip to Berlin.”
“We are adamantly opposed to any nuclear agreement with Iran that would open the path for the development of nuclear weapons, “In a speech on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Israeli prime minister declared.
He warned of Israel’s “crushing reaction” to any hostile advances to the Yad Vashem Holocaust monument in Jerusalem, adding, “And for the same reason, we are battling fiercely against Iran’s terror proxies surrounding us.”
Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian crown prince whose father was the shah toppled in the Islamic revolution of 1979, was present at the event.
Prior to the event, Pahlavi, who had arrived in Israel earlier on Monday as Gila Gamliel’s guest for his first trip to the country, said that the current Iranian government did not speak for the Iranian people.
“Now, when we have a dictatorship that denies that the Holocaust ever took place, it was my responsibility to be here in honor of my fellow citizens and to pay my respects to the victims of the Holocaust, “He informed the press.
On-and-off negotiations between Tehran and major Western powers to resurrect the historic 2015 agreement that aimed to rein in Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions have stagnated since last year.
With Washington’s unilateral departure in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump, the agreement Iran made with Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States failed.
The UN nuclear watchdog said in February that it had found uranium in Iran that had been enriched to a level of 83.7 percent, just shy of the 90 percent required to make an atomic weapon.
Iran claims it has never attempted to enrich uranium above a purity of 60% and denies having any desire to build nuclear weapons.