On Tuesday in Vienna, negotiations will begin with Iran to start to hammer out a comprehensive deal on their nuclear program. There is a long road of negotiations ahead. Throughout the process so far, the UK and Israel have worked closely together and shared the same goal: To prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. But differences have opened up between us on how we achieve this. On the day before the talks start, I want to address the concerns Israel has set out.

The first concern is that we would prefer to make a bad deal than no deal at all. This is simply wrong. We know that an Iranian nuclear weapon would be a clear danger not only to Israel but to the region and to the world. We share the same unshakeable goal of preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon. We remain committed to ensuring that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful. The UK and its partners will not settle for just any deal. It will have to be the right deal, one in which the whole world, including Israel, should have confidence.

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