{"id":1076018,"date":"2021-12-02T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076018"},"modified":"2021-12-02T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:14:06","slug":"israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-to-antony-blinken-u-s-must-immediately-halt-talks-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-to-antony-blinken-u-s-must-immediately-halt-talks-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli PM Naftali Bennett to Antony Blinken: U.S. Must Immediately Halt Talks with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraeli-pm-naftali-bennett-to-antony-blinken-u-s-must-immediately-halt-talks-with-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076018&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the recently resumed Middle East nuclear talks needed to come to an \u201cimmediate cessation,\u201d accusing Iran of \u201cnuclear blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the time has come for \u201cconcrete steps\u201d to be taken against the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"il\">Iran<\/span>&nbsp;was carrying out \u2018nuclear blackmail\u2019 as a negotiation tactic and that this must be met with an immediate cessation of negotiations and by concrete steps taken by the major powers,\u201d a statement from his office said.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks echoed ones he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/11\/30\/israeli-pm-bennett-tells-world-leaders-not-to-give-in-to-irans-nuclear-blackmail\/\">reportedly<\/a> made earlier this week to delegates at the negotiations in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>In a video statement obtained&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-iran-israel-tehran-naftali-bennett-cda7301fb20370e2c726edf1f9291e3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">by the Associated Press<\/a>, Bennett warned world powers Iran wants \u201cto end sanctions in exchange for almost nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18974570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236890119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18974570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236890119-1024x676-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israeli Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi takes part in a candle lightning ceremony with Israeli soldiers on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in Jerusalem on November 29, 2021. Bennett earlier charged that Iran was re-entering talks on its nuclear programme to seek sanctions relief in exchange for \u201calmost nothing,\u201d insisting Tehran should \u201cnot be rewarded.\u201d (GIL COHEN-MAGEN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Iran, Bennett said,&nbsp;aims to press on with its nuclear program while receive hundreds of billions of dollars once sanctions are lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli leader urged world powers not \u201cgive in to Iran\u2019s nuclear blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/iran-enrich-weapons-grade-uranium-israel-f624e90a-2283-4b55-adca-d5aae1403912.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Axios<\/a>, which cited two senior American officials. Israel has been sharing intelligence with the U.S. proving that Iran is taking technical steps necessary to enrich uranium and reach weapons-grade 90 percent purity within a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed Tehran has increased its stockpiles of enriched uranium as many as six times in excess of the limit laid down in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Both&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/nyt-us-warns-israel-attacks-on-iran-nuclear-program-are-counterproductive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">the U.S.<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liberman-warns-nuke-deal-wont-stop-iran-from-getting-bomb-within-5-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Israel<\/a>&nbsp;have already expressed their belief that&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">Iran<\/span>&nbsp;could&nbsp;build a nuclear bomb within a matter of weeks to months, with the uranium enrichment levels it has reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the recently resumed Middle East nuclear talks needed to come to an \u201cimmediate cessation,\u201d accusing Iran &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}