Deal On Iran's Nuclear Program Threatens Israel's Future: Pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that an imminent deal between Iran and world powers on Tehran's nuclear program poses a threat to Israel's future.



"The biggest threat to Israel's security and its future was and remains Iran's attempt to arm itself with nuclear bomb," Netanyahu said at a swearing-in ceremony of the 20th Israeli Knesset (parliament).



"The agreement shaping up in Lausanne paves the way to that outcome," he added.



Netanyahu alleged that the agreement will allow Iran to keep its underground nuclear sites, the nuclear reactor at Arak and advanced centrifuges.



"We were told that these elements are not necessary for peaceful nuclear program," Netanyahu said.



"The time Iran will need to build nuclear bomb will not be measured in years…It has been reduced for less than a year," he claimed.



Iran and the P5+1 group, which includes the U.S., U.K., Russia, China and France plus Germany, have until the end of Tuesday to agree on a political framework for an agreement.



The talks had recently been ramped up amid concerns that a failure to produce a framework deal before March 31 could jeopardize any positive outcome of a final agreement, due on July 1.



The P5+1 group has claimed that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and wants the program curbed in return for lifting international sanctions. Tehran, meanwhile, insists that its nuclear program is solely for peaceful civilian purposes.



The group wants Iran to accept limits on its uranium enrichment capacity and allows International Atomic Energy Agency inspections without interference.



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