Israel and the United States agree that Iran should not have nuclear weapons, Prime Minister of the Jewish state Benjamin Netanyahu said, summing up his visit to Washington. In this regard, Tehran can either voluntarily agree to dismantle its nuclear program under external control, following the example of Libya, or prepare for a "military option," he said.

"We agree: Iran should not have nuclear weapons. This can be resolved through an agreement, but only if it is an agreement on the Libyan model: that is, they enter, detonate nuclear facilities, and completely dismantle equipment - under American control and with the participation of the United States. In that case, good. The second possibility is that there will be no agreement. Then Iran will simply stall for time, and in this case only the military option remains. Everyone understands this," said Netanyahu, whose statements were distributed by the prime minister's office.

According to him, this issue was one of the topics of his conversation with US President Donald Trump during their meeting at the White House on April 7. "We discussed this in detail," the prime minister said.

Libya has been striving to possess nuclear weapons since the 1970s. In the early 1980s, a nuclear research center with a 10 MW reactor was built in the country with the participation of the USSR. In 2003, after lengthy negotiations with Britain and the United States, Muammar Gaddafi, who led Libya at the time, announced his country's refusal to develop nuclear weapons, after which London and Washington normalized relations with Tripoli. tass.ru.