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US envoy: We 'see eye to eye' with Israel on stopping Iran

US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss extending the UN arms embargo on Iran, which expires on Oct. 18.

by  JNS and ILH Staff
Published on  07-01-2020 07:57
Last modified: 07-01-2020 12:46
US envoy: Iran's foreign policy brought Arabs, Israelis togetherAFP/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook | Photo: AFP/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook in Jerusalem on Tuesday to discuss extending the UN arms embargo on Iran, which expires in October.

In Israel following visits to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, where he received support for extending the embargo, Hook said that Israel and the United States "see eye to eye" on the issue and highlighted Iran's belligerent goals in the region.

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The arms embargo, established under UN Security Council Resolution 2231, is first of the so-called "sunset provisions" of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal, is set to expire on Oct. 18.

"In four short months, Iran will be able to freely import fighter jets, attack helicopters, warships, submarines, large-caliber artillery systems and missiles of certain ranges," said Hook.

"Iran will then be in a position to export these weapons and their technologies to their proxies, such as Hezbollah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Shia militia groups in Iraq, Syria militant networks in Bahrain and to the Houthis in Yemen."

This, said Hook, represented a threat to Israel's security.

"The last thing that this region needs is more Iranian weapons," he said. "This is a threat to Israel's security because no country sponsors more terrorism and anti-Semitism in the world than the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Hook said on June 16 that the US administration wanted the arms embargo to be extended indefinitely.

Netanyahu expressed his thanks to Hook for the Trump administration's actions on the Iran front, saying that most of the world was doing nothing about Tehran's "rampant aggression," or worse, actively colluding with it.

"You've been the point man for [US] President [Donald] Trump's campaign of maximum pressure on Iran," Netanyahu told Hook, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.

"This campaign is based on one simple principle, that if Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, it should behave like a normal country," said Netanyahu. "But it doesn't."

Iran, said Netanyahu, deliberately deceives the international community.

"It lies all the time. It lies on solemn pledges and commitments that it took before the international community. It continues its secret program to develop nuclear weapons. It continues its secret program to develop the means to deliver nuclear weapons," he said.

"Iran denies access to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspectors to important sites, some of which we have uncovered through our own activity. It continues its rampant aggression across the Middle East and beyond. It arms, trains, finances and dispatches terrorists. Iran is doing all that and most of the international community is doing nothing in the face of it. And worse than nothing, many countries collude in this aggression. So I want to thank President Trump. We expressed our appreciation to what he and your administration [are] doing."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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