Lapid: Europe and the US feel there will be no return to Iran deal

PARIS — In his meeting Tuesday with France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Yair Lapid stressed the importance of a credible military threat in order to push Iran into a nuclear deal that is acceptable to Israel.

“Our claim is that if Iran won’t agree to this deal, they won’t agree to anything without a credible military threat,” Lapid told Israeli reporters in Paris after the meeting.

There is also a growing acceptance, the prime minister claimed, that there won’t be a return to the 2015 JCPOA deal.

“The feeling is that there won’t be a deal, and if there is no deal, then there needs to be something else,” said Lapid.

Having the Iranians believing there could be a military strike on their nuclear facilities and military assets is the key to creating that alternative, in Israel’s eyes. READ MORE