Prime Minister Yair Lapid made case for Israel's position on the Iran nuclear deal in a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Wednesday.
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"It is time to move past the failed negotiations with Iran," Lapid said in a press conference after, stressing that "returning to the nuclear agreement, under the current conditions, would be a critical mistake. Removing sanctions and pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into Iran would bring a wave of terrorism not only to the Middle East but across Europe."
He had also given Scholz "sensitive and relevant intelligence information" on the program as the two discussed the need for a new strategy to stop Iran.
Scholz, in turn, lamented Iran's refusal of the latest European draft on the nuclear deal and expressed commitment to Israel's security.
Turning to Lapid he said, "You can rely on Germany as we will always stand by Israel."
The two leaders also met with Holocaust survivors at The House of the Wannsee Conference outside Berlin, a memorial site where the Nazi command met to discuss the Final Solution.
Lapid, whose father was a Holocaust survivor from the Budapest ghetto and whose grandfather died in the Mauthausen concentration camp, said the meeting was a moment "of great victory" for the survivors and for their families who traveled together with the prime minister from Israel to Germany.
"They survived, they established an independent and strong country. They return here with their heads held high as free people," Lapid stressed.
He praised Scholz for his "moral courage" and "willingness to be a part of this," noting that deep ties between Israel and Germany prove that "humanity always has a choice."
"Evil can be replaced by friendship. Brutality can be replaced by human kindness and the ability to cooperate," the prime minister said.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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