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April 12, 2021
TEL AVIV: Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Israel on Sunday on the first high-level visit from the new US administration, after talks restarted on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Austin’s visit comes just days after Washington said it had offered “very serious” ideas on reviving the hobbled agreement that is staunchly opposed by Israel.
Austin’s first scheduled stop on the two-day trip was a meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz.
Israel under hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a fierce critic of the Iran nuclear deal, dating back to when it was being negotiated during Barack Obama’s administration.
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A top official in Iran blamed Israel on Monday for a sabotage attack at its underground Natanz nuclear facility in what Tehran called an act of nuclear terrorism.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh represented the first official accusation leveled against Israel for the incident Sunday that cut power across the facility.
Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, reportedly appeared on the country’s State TV and blamed the Zionists that seek to take revenge because of our progress in the way to lift sanctions…they have publically said that they will not allow this. But we will take our revenge from the Zionists.