(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook in Jerusalem on Tuesday: Iran "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." "Iran denies access to the IAEA 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." "Iran tried to intimidate the United States from taking action against Iranian aggression....The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, led by the arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani, launched a proxy war against the United States forces and allies in the region....You took important and courageous decisions to take out Soleimani....Without the determination to use military force against those who plan to attack you, the danger simply grows greater and greater." "We are absolutely resolved to prevent Iran from entrenching itself militarily in our immediate vicinity. We take repeated and forceful military action against Iran and its proxies in Syria and elsewhere if necessary. And I say to the ayatollahs in Tehran, Israel will continue to take these actions necessary to prevent you from creating another terror and military front against Israel in Syria." "Brian, in response to the repeated Iranian provocations and violations, you have taken important actions and I believe it is time to implement now snapback sanctions....We should not wait for Iran to start its breakout to a nuclear weapon because when that happens it will be too late for sanctions."
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