Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said Thursday he hopes the ongoing US-Iran negotiations will succeed but insisted Iran must not retain any uranium enrichment capability.
“We hope and pray that the talks being led by Steve Witkoff will be successful,” Leiter told Fox News, referring to the fifth round of indirect talks on Friday. “But… Iran cannot have a path to nuclear weapons.”
Leiter emphasized that enrichment is unnecessary for civilian nuclear energy and warned it poses a direct threat to regional and global stability. “There’s no need for enrichment. Enrichment only leads to one thing, a nuclear bomb,” he said.
“If Iran has a nuclear bomb, they’re going to use it,” he added. “It is an existential threat for the State of Israel. We cannot allow, under any circumstances, for Iran to have a nuclear bomb.”
