Tel Aviv to seek US compensation over Iran nuclear talks: Minister

Israel's Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon says the regime will seek “compensation” from the United States over the recent conclusion of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers.

In a Friday interview with Israel's channel 2, Ya’alon claimed that Tel Aviv will “discuss the compensation that Israel deserves in order to maintain its qualitative [military] edge” due to factors including “Iran’s status as a nuclear threshold state, and the fact that Iran is about to receive billions” following the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions.

On July 14, Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany -- reached a conclusion on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Austrian capital city of Vienna following 18 days of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Israel claims that any sanctions relief would make it easier for Iran to continue to support the anti-Israel front, including the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.

Israel can’t accept putting off Iran conflict

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ya’alon said the world powers have made a mistake in postponing a confrontation with Iran until the "next generation", referring to the terms of the newly signed accord, which imposes some restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities for ten years in exchange for lifting the sanctions.

“This perception of avoiding conflict when you have to confront it - as in this situation with Iran - to put it off for the next decade, the next generation, this we cannot accept,” Ya’alon stated.

Israel ‘efforts’ for anti-Iran sanctions

Ya’alon also claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Tel Aviv regime had pushed for the anti-Iran sanctions.

“If it weren’t for the effort Israel has invested in recent years, there would be not the sanctions that were imposed on Iran.” 

P5+1 showed ‘how not to negotiate’

The Israeli minster further criticized the P5+1 for their nuclear negotiations with Iran, saying that the six world powers showed “how not to conduct negotiations.” 

“I think these negotiations will be studied for many years to come,” Yaalon said, adding, “How did the world powers come with the great hand they had, without the need to reach an agreement, yet ultimately it appeared as though the world powers were the ones in need and not the Iranians.”

Netanyahu, who has been on a combative campaign against the Iran-P5+1 talks, warned Tuesday that the Tel Aviv regime will not be bound by the outcome of the Iran talks, saying what happened at the United Nations building in Vienna was “a stunning historic mistake.”

The Israeli minister’s rhetoric against Iran comes as the Tel Aviv regime is widely believed to be the sole possessor of a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East. It has also blatantly violated the international rules regarding nuclear non-proliferation.

In December 2014, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Tel Aviv regime to join the non-proliferation agreement (NPT) and put its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

 Tel Aviv reportedly maintains between 200 and 400 atomic warheads.

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