Likud lawmaker Nir Barkat: Iran will continue race towards bomb, with or without deal

Ben Caspit speaks this week with Knesset member for the Likud party Nir Barkat. The legislator just came back from a tour in the United States, where he campaigned against the Iranian nuclear program. Barkat argues that the Iranians do not hide their desire to annihilate Israel, and thus the international community should not try to conclude any deal with them. "You don’t make a deal with someone who wants to take you out of business. They want to destroy Israel, so what kind of a deal can you make with them? Instead of negotiating a deal, we must focus of creating a force that would threaten and deter Iran," says Barkat. He also says that Tehran cannot be trusted with any kind of agreement, arguing, "they will surely breach the agreement from day one."

Links:

-Israeli spy chief warns Iran deal won't give Iran 'immunity from Mossad' - Al-Monitor

-Israel’s Lapid, Mossad chief diverge on emerging Iran nuclear deal - Al-Monitor

-Israel resigned to new Iran nuclear deal over its objections - Al-Monitor