US President Donald Trump has assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he will not allow Iran develop a nuclear weapon and termed the nuclear agreement Tehran reached with world powers one of the ‘worst deals’ he has ever seen.
Trump has on several occasions — during his presidential campaign and afterwards - criticised the agreement reached in 2015 between Iran and the US, the UK, Russia, France, China and Germany to limit the Islamic Republic's nuclear ability.
The deal signed during President Barack Obama's tenure had strained US-Israel ties, and Obama-Netanyahu relationship.
Trump's explicit guarantee came during his first joint presser with Netanyahu after he took over the US presidency on January 20. He has previously said he would work to improve ties with Israel, and has imposed sanctions on Iran for testing a ballistic missile in violation of the nuclear deal.
Iran says Israel ‘biggest threat' to world peace
Tehran: Iran said on Thursday that Israel's atomic arsenal is the biggest danger to world peace, a day after US President Donald Trump vowed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon.
Israel is the "biggest threat to the peace and security in the region and the world," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.
Trump had warned yesterday after meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington that the "threat of Iran's nuclear ambitions" was one of the major security challenges facing Israel.
The US president told reporters that he would do "more to prevent Iran from ever developing — I mean ever — a nuclear weapon".
But Ghasemi dismissed the comments by Trump and Netanyahu comments as ‘nonsense’.