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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=12801
Ya'alon: "Israel Will Not Accept Deal that Allows Iran to Enrich Uranium"
(Israel Hayom) Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday that Iran is Israel's single greatest security challenge. "Some people will be seduced by the regime's charm offensive and relent. This is a regime that for the last 20 years we have witnessed how well it knows how to lie, cheat and mislead the West." "Iran's supreme leader...has been forced to make several concessions on Iran's nuclear program, but Iran's intention is not to give up its nuclear option. They are working toward retaining an independent enrichment capability. This is not acceptable to us, because this is a way to mislead and cheat as they have done in the past." "Our position is that in order to ease the sanctions it is necessary to demand from the Iranians to give up their independent enrichment capability, the plutonium capability that they developed recently and to give up the [enriched uranium] material they have accumulated." "We hope that the diplomatic channel, along with sanctions, will [stop Iran's nuclear program]. But ultimately we need to be prepared to defend ourselves, by ourselves, as we always say."