Ebrahim Raisi is about to take over at a time when Iran seeks to salvage the tattered 2015 nuclear deal.
Tel Aviv:
Israel stated Saturday the worldwide group must be alarmed by hardliner Ebrahim Raisi’s election as Iranian president due to his dedication to a “quickly advancing army nuclear program”.
Raisi’s election “makes clear Iran’s true malign intentions, and will immediate grave concern among the many worldwide group”, overseas ministry spokesman Lior Haiat wrote on Twitter.
3/4 An extremist determine, dedicated to Iran’s quickly advancing army nuclear program, his election makes clear Iran’s true malign intentions, and will immediate grave concern among the many worldwide group.
— Lior Haiat 🇮🇱 (@LiorHaiat) June 19, 2021
Iran has “elected its most extremist president thus far”, he stated following Friday’s vote. Raisi is “dedicated to Iran’s quickly advancing army nuclear program”.
Israel fiercely opposes the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that supplied its arch-foe Iran sanctions reduction in change for curbs on its nuclear programme.
It argues the deal, from which US President Donald Trump withdrew three years later, may allow the Islamic republic to develop nuclear arms.
Iran has at all times denied looking for a nuclear weapon.
Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric, is about to take over at a vital time as Iran seeks to salvage the tattered deal and free itself from punishing US sanctions.
Israel’s newly sworn-in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has referred to as efforts to revive the deal a “mistake that can give one of many darkest regimes legitimacy”.
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