Following the release of an International Atomic Energy Agency report on the Iranian nuclear program issued earlier this week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said: "Israel views with utmost gravity the picture of the situation reflected in the report, which proves that Iran is continuing to lie to the world and advance a program to develop nuclear weapons while denying its international commitments.
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"It must be made certain that Iran will never have nuclear weapons capability," he said.
The premier called for an "appropriate and rapid international reaction to the severe actions of Iran. The IAEA report warns that the time to act is now; therefore, the naïve expectation that Iran will be prepared to change its path via negotiations has been proven to be baseless," he said.
"Only a vigorous stand by the international community, backed up by decisions and actions, will be able to lead to change from the regime in Tehran, which has lost all restraint," Bennett said.
"Israel will do everything to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons," he said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency blasted Iran for having "seriously undermined" efforts to inspect the country's nuclear activities in a report Tuesday.
The report comes as the US and its allies attempt to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, with negotiations stalled in Vienna.
Iran suspended IAEA inspectors from some monitoring activities, allegedly for the US refusing to lift sanctions. This included some video and other surveillance on Tehran's nuclear program.
Iran agreed to transfer these recordings to the IAEA in an agreement that expired on June 24. Since then, the report said Iran "has failed to engage with the Agency at all on this matter for a number of months."
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