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Amid US-Iran talks, Netanyahu says Iran’s entire nuclear program must go

The Jerusalem Post reports: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday repeated calls for Iran’s entire nuclear infrastructure to be dismantled, as Washington and Tehran engage in talks for a nuclear accord.

The United States and Iran have so far held three rounds of indirect talks, mediated by Gulf state Oman, aimed at sealing a deal that would block Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but also lift crippling economic sanctions imposed by Washington.

After talks in Rome earlier this month, Oman said that the US and Iran were pursuing an accord that would see Tehran ‘completely free’ of nuclear weapons and sanctions but ‘maintaining its ability to develop peaceful nuclear energy.’

Netanyahu said the only ‘good deal’ would be one that removed ‘all of the infrastructure’ akin to the 2003 agreement that Libya made with the West that saw it give up its nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs…”

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