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 by AFP Staff Writers Tel Aviv (AFP) June 19, 2021
Israel said Saturday the international community should be alarmed by hardliner Ebrahim Raisi's election as Iranian president because of his commitment to a "rapidly advancing military nuclear program". Raisi's election "makes clear Iran's true malign intentions, and should prompt grave concern among the international community", foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat wrote on Twitter. Iran has "elected its most extremist president to date", he said following Friday's vote. Raisi is "committed to Iran's rapidly advancing military nuclear program". Israel fiercely opposes the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that offered its arch-foe Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme. It argues the deal, from which US President Donald Trump withdrew three years later, could enable the Islamic republic to develop nuclear arms. Iran has always denied seeking a nuclear weapon. Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric, is set to take over at a critical 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 called efforts to revive the deal a "mistake that will give one of the darkest regimes legitimacy".
'Time on no one's side' in Iran nuclear talks: France Paris (AFP) June 16, 2021 France said Wednesday that "time is on no one's side" in talks aiming to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear programme, two days ahead of an Iranian presidential election expected to be won by a hardliner. The French foreign ministry said "significant disagreements persist" as representatives from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Iran meet in Vienna in search of a breakthrough. US President Joe Biden has indicated a willingness to rejoin the agreement, on ... read more
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