Israeli Officials Warn Emerging Iran Deal Could Undermine Security Interests

Senior Israeli officials and security experts warned on Saturday, in comments to Channel 12, that the emerging agreement between the United States and Iran could threaten Israel’s core security interests. They said the Trump administration appears to have accepted key Iranian demands, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is trying to avoid openly confronting President Donald Trump.

According to the officials, the main change is that a demand to remove enriched uranium from Iran has been replaced by a requirement to dilute it. They said this means the credible military threat against Iran has been eroded, and they stressed that the deal does not include Iran’s missile program or its support for proxy groups.

The critics said the framework would allow an immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz and would revive the Iranian regime, which they described as a blow to the Iranian public. They argued that only later, under what they called a kind of “payment on credit,” would any action be taken against Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

The officials compared the emerging framework to the end of the war in Gaza, asking what enforcement leverage Washington would still have if Iran failed to take the required steps after 60 days of a ceasefire. They said, “All the goals Israel set are not getting an immediate answer in the agreement,” and added, “The credible military threat has been worn down to nothing.” They also warned the deal does not require Iran to stop backing its regional proxies and could even reconnect Tehran to Hezbollah. Reporting earlier on Channel 12, the network said Israeli fears focused on Trump settling for dilution of enriched uranium rather than insisting on removing it from Iran, with a Netanyahu circle warning, “The big fear is that Trump will do to us what Obama did.”