JERUSALEM, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that his country will not be bound by any new nuclear deal with Iran.
Speaking in a conference at the Reichman University north of Tel Aviv, Bennett noted that Israel is ready to face the confrontation with Iran.
"Israel obviously is not a party to the agreement and is not obligated by it," he told the conference.
Bennett described Iran as being "in a very advanced stage of its nuclear program," and with high uranium enrichment capability.
He implied that Israel is ready to take action against its arch-foe. "Israel must maintain its capabilities to act and its freedom of action, in every situation and under any political circumstance," he said.
Like his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu, Bennett is a staunch opponent of the 2015 nuclear deal, signed between the world powers and Iran in order to curb Iran's nuclear program.
Israel fears that a possible new deal would not put enough safeguards to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Bennett expressed his readiness to be on a collision track with Israel's closest ally the United States. "We stand at the outset of a complicated period. There may also be disagreements with the our best friends," he added. Enditem