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On the eve of talks Thursday in Geneva between six world powers and Iran on implementing the recent nuclear agreement, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu emphasized Wednesday to visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Iran must be denied the capability to develop nuclear weapons.
"We believe that for the peace of the world, for the peace of the coming years and decades, Iran must be denied the capability – I stress the word – the capability to develop nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said before their two hour meeting.
China, along with the US, Russia, France, Germany and Britain, is one of the P5+1 countries negotiating with Iran. Israeli sources said that Beijing generally follows Moscow\’s lead in these talks. .
Despite widespread skepticism in the west that Netanyahu\’s demands of Iran are attainable, he reiterated them again to Wang, saying Iran must end all uranium enrichment, dismantle its centrifuges, eliminate the stockpiles of enriched uranium, and dismantle its heavy water reactor in Arak so that it will be unable to produce plutonium.
"I think that this is something that the international community in its entirety must stand firm on," he said. Wang did not mention Iran in his brief remarks.