Israel’s top intelligence chief has reportedly warned that the United States is “rushing” into a bad nuclear deal with Iran. Mossad chief David Barnea said in a recent meeting that the United States is “rushing into an agreement that is a lie,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Barnea also reportedly said the deal is “very bad for Israel” and “a strategic disaster.” Barnea explained that the deal as it currently stands “gives Iran permission to gather the required nuclear material for a bomb,” while also providing economic benefits to Tehran that could help the country promote proxy terrorism. KIRBY TAKES ON ISRAEL’S CONCERNS OVER NUCLEAR DEAL, BIDEN SAYS ‘UNDERSTANDS’ BUT PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD CIA Director William Burns (C) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel on August 11, 2021. Mossad Director David Barnea (L) also attended the meeting. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom / GPO/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Iran Says It Will Only Allow NUCLEAR INSPECTIONS AGREEED TO IN 2015 DEAL: ‘NOT ANOTHER WORD’ Several past and present Israeli leaders have railed against reinstating the Iran nuclear deal. The current prime minister this week urged President Joe Biden and Western powers to cancel talks with Iran over the issue. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid called the emerging deal a “bad deal” and argued that Biden had failed to adhere to the red lines he had previously promised to set. “Western countries are drawing a red line, the Iranians are ignoring it, and the red line is moving,” Lapid told reporters at a news conference in Jerusalem. An emerging deal, Lapid said, “doesn’t meet the standards that President Biden himself set: to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state.” NETANYAHU TORES BIDEN FOR RETIREMENT TO REVIVE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL: MIDDLE EAST WILL BECOME A ‘NUCLEAR FALL’ Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) attends a press conference with Josep Borell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (C) at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran’s capital Tehran on June 25, 2022. ( (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)) The Biden administration responded Wednesday to Iran’s latest proposal to resume compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, but neither side offered a definitive path to reviving the accord, which has been on a life limbo since former President Donald Trump left it in 2018. . State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed the administration had completed its review of Iran’s comments on a European proposal. Price did not elaborate on the administration’s response. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Former President Hassan Rouhani, second right, listens to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali Akbar Salehi during his visit to an exhibition of Iran’s new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, in April 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office/AP) “As you know, we received Iran’s comments on the EU’s proposed final text through the EU,” Price said. “Our review of these comments is now complete. We have responded to the EU today.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
A White House spokesman told Fox News Digital earlier this month that President Biden has been clear that he will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon and that the best way to ensure that happens is through diplomacy. The Associated Press contributed to this report Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips at [email protected]