Briefing journalists, a senior Israeli official said Aug. 18, “The Europeans sent Iran a final offer, which doesn’t even meet the demands that the Americans committed to, and established that this offer was ‘take it or leave it.' Iran turned down the offer, and the time has come to get up and walk away. Anything else sends a strong message of weakness.”
The official also said that the world must now discuss what must be done in order to prevent Iran from reaching nuclear weapons capacities. “Israel, as everyone knows, is not obligated by anything and will do what it needs to stop a nuclear Iran and prevent Iran from using its terrorist proxies in the region,” he said. “The United States knows and recognizes this,” the official said. Lapid, he added, will continue to make calls to Western leaders and diplomats in the coming days, to relay the same message.
