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Israel to Oppose Any Deal that Leaves Iran with Enrichment Capabilities
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Israel will campaign unrelentingly against a deal with Iran that allows it to retain uranium enrichment rights and does not end its development of a plutonium track toward nuclear arms, a senior Israeli official said on Saturday night. Prime Minister Netanyahu said after his Friday meeting with Secretary of State Kerry: "The proposal being discussed now is a bad deal, a very bad deal. Iran is not asked to dismantle even one centrifuge, but the international community is easing sanctions on Iran for the first time in many years." According to Netanyahu, Iran was getting everything it wanted at this stage and not giving anything in return. On Saturday, a senior Israeli official said that "the more the details accumulate" regarding the Geneva talks, "the greater the puzzlement at the haste to sign an agreement that is so bad for the world." The official said the proposed deal would leave a military nuclear capability in Iran's hands that would enable it to "break out" and build a nuclear bomb within a matter of weeks. The official said Israel supported a diplomatic solution that would bring an end to Iran's nuclear weapons program, meaning it must dismantle its centrifuges, transfer its enriched uranium out of the country, and stop all work on its heavy water reactor at Arak.