(Reuters) Israel is lobbying world powers anew against any Iranian nuclear deal that would let Tehran retain potential bomb-making technologies, Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz said Wednesday. The next round of talks between six world powers and Iran is expected to be held later this month in New York. Steinitz told Israel Radio he saw no sign of Iran significantly scaling back uranium enrichment. "What Rouhani has done is concede on all kinds of secondary issues, partial concessions, but protected the project's core, which is what threatens us and the whole world....This means that in substance Iran's positions have remained as tough as before, and if there is no dramatic development in the coming month, then either there will be no deal - or there will be a bad deal leaving Iran a nuclear threshold state, and this is, of course, something we are not willing to accept."
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