Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that an announced increase of uranium enrichment by Iran was an extremely dangerous move and he again called on Europe to impose punitive sanctions on Tehran.
Netanyahu made the remarks after Iran said it is fully prepared to enrich uranium at any level and at any amount, in further defiance of US efforts to squeeze it with sanctions and force it to renegotiate a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
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In a news conference that was broadcast live, senior Iranian officials said Tehran, which has denied seeking nuclear arms, would keep reducing its commitments every 60 days unless signatories of the pact moved to protect it from US sanctions.
"This is a very, very dangerous step," Netanyahu said in public remarks at the weekly cabinet meeting.
"Iran has violated its solemn promise under the UN Security Council not to enrich uranium beyond a certain level. The enrichment of uranium is made for one reason and one reason only: It's for the creation of atomic bombs," Netanyahu told the cabinet.
"The leaders of the P5+1 promised and committed themselves to snapback sanctions the minute Iran did that. It just did. Where are they?" Netanyahu said.
