Why has Israel chosen not to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)? In this exclusive interview, Israel’s Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, explains the country’s stance amidst regional and historical complexities. Watch to understand Israel’s perspective on nuclear policy and why it insists that peaceful coexistence and confronting radicalism, not surrender, are the keys to lasting peace in the Middle East.
00:00Israel's demand has always remained that it does not want Iran to have a nuke, right?
00:05But at the same time, Israel does not want to join NPT.
00:10Why is this ambiguity there?
00:13Don't you think if it joins NPT, it will somehow help these nations to get a better understanding of what Israel actually stands for?
00:25Absolutely not.
00:26And I'll tell you why.
00:27Because, first of all, the NPT is not a credible organization.
00:32There have been a multitude of countries that have joined the NPT and they have cheated.
00:37You had Syria, who was part of the NPT, but was building a nuclear weapon.
00:44You had Iraq doing the same.
00:47You had Libya doing the same.
00:49And, of course, the biggest cheater of all are the Iranians.
00:53But it's not only that.
00:54You know, the Iranians have sworn to destroy the state of Israel.
00:59Time and again, they had a clock in the middle of Tehran, counting the time until Israel is destroyed.
01:06They had a plan, an operational plan, to annihilate the state of Israel in 2027, with a combination of several means.
01:15An army of proxies that have built around us, a huge arsenal of ballistic missiles, tens of thousands of ballistic missiles they were going to produce, and a nuclear arsenal.
01:27And they have been cheating the IAEA for years and years now.
01:33Now, even after they signed the so-called JCPOA, they were continuing to cheat, and actually the IAEA, only a few months back, has declared that Iran has breached the safeguards agreement,
01:48which is the most basic commitment that countries take upon themselves when they join the NPT, so it would be completely unfair to ask from a country like Israel to join an organization that has been constantly been cheated by countries that have sworn to destroy us.
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