“We will present an orderly plan that we have formulated in the past two months to curb the Iranians, both in the nuclear sphere and vis-à-vis regional aggression,” Bennett told the government at its weekly meeting on Sunday.
The Biden administration is at odds with Israel over the best way to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Biden has sought a return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which the Trump administration exited in 2018. Israel always opposed the deal, which it claimed only emboldened the Islamic Republic.
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Talks on a possible revival of the deal, however, have ground to a halt. In the interim, Iran has abandoned the limits set by the deal on uranium enrichment, causing the Biden administration itself to speculate about the dangers of a protracted negotiation process for the deal’s revival.
According to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Iran has produced uranium metal that is enriched up to 20% fissile purity and increased the production capacity of uranium enriched to 60%.
Both are key steps in the development of a nuclear weapon: Uranium can be used to make the core of a nuclear bomb.
“We inherited a not-so-simple situation. Iran is behaving in a bullying and aggressive manner throughout the region,” explained Bennett, who was sworn into office in May.
“I will tell President Biden that it is time to stop the Iranians – to stop this thing – not to give them a lifeline in the form of re-entering into an expired nuclear deal,” Bennett said. “It is no longer relevant, even by the standards of those who once thought that it was.”
Reuters contributed to this report.