An official announced on Sunday that the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency will travel to the US in early September for discussions over the potential revival of the Iran nuclear deal.
The upcoming visit is the latest attempt by the Jewish state to dissuade Western powers from returning to the historic 2015 agreement with Tehran.
Israel claims that a deal would make it easier to pay extremists supported by Iran while doing nothing to stop Tehran from creating a nuclear weapon, a goal Iran has always denied.
Mossad chief David Barnea will “be visiting Washington in a week to participate in closed door meetings in Congress on the Iran deal,” a senior Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity, without providing further details.
Earlier Sunday, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that Israel’s “diplomatic fight” against the deal included its national security advisor and defence minister holding recent meetings in the United States.
“We are making a concerted effort to ensure the Americans and Europeans understand the dangers involved in this agreement,” Lapid said, stressing what was signed in 2015 was “not a good deal,” and that the one currently being formulated entails “greater dangers.”
In 2018, then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement designed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
His successor Joe Biden has sought to return to the deal, and after almost a year-and-a-half of talks, recent progress has put the Jewish state on edge.
According to Lapid, a new agreement would have to include an expiration date, and tighter supervision that would also “address Iran’s ballistic missile program and its involvement in terrorism throughout the Middle East.”
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