Israel prefers talks on Iran: Lieberman

Speaking at a news conference in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Friday, Lieberman said Israel hopes that sanctions and negotiations will force the Iranian government to freeze its nuclear energy program, Reuters reported.

He added that Tel-Aviv prefers talks between Iran and the P5+1 group — comprising Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany — and sanctions to settle the dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy activities.

The United States, the Israeli regime, and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program without offering any evidence verifying such allegations. Washington and Tel Aviv have at times threatened Tehran with the “option” of a military strike against its civilian nuclear facilities.

On Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said despite Tel Aviv’s escalating war rhetoric against Iran, the Israeli regime is too small to survive even one week of real war.

“First of all we take every little threat serious even if it comes from the weakest country in the world,” he said in an interview with Danish television channel TV2.

Salehi added that Iran does not consider Israeli claims or threats as real threats.

The UN Security Council — under pressure from Washington and Tel Aviv — has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Tehran. The United States and the European Union have also adopted unilateral measures against the Islamic Republic in an effort to pressure Iran into abandoning its nuclear energy program.

Iran argues that as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence indicating that Tehran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted towards nuclear weapons production.

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