Ahead of an
expected final deal on Iran's nuclear program on Monday, which Iran's top
negotiator said may be delayed
again until after Tuesday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) warned that
Israel will have to "defend itself" after the deal.
"The bottom line is that we're heading for a bad deal,
after which we will continue to prepare to defend ourselves on our own
power," Ya'alon said at the start of a Monday meeting of the Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee.
"The deal being formed in Vienna will influence our political-security
situation more than anything, and as far as we understand it will be
signed soon, maybe even in the coming day. Even if there will be improvements
at the last moment, this is a bad deal that allows Iran to be on the verge of
the nuclear threshold, to be a nuclear threshold state with all that
is implied by that."(READ MORE)
