'Iran Ceasefire Hold Only If...': Israel's Ambassador to India Reuven Azar | Exclusive

Israel’s Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, said the ceasefire in the Iran conflict offers a pause but warned it may not hold if conditions are not met. Speaking after the truce announcement, Azar told Times Now that Iranian regime “had no choice but to agree to a ceasefire in which they open the straits of Hormuz,” but stressed there is “no commitment from the part of the United States or Israel that in two weeks from now we will not renew fire if the conditions of the 15 point plan are not fulfilled.He said Israel had achieved its key military objectives. “It means that we have achieved the three main goals that we have put forward at the beginning. That means to remove two existential threats,” he said, referring to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic

missile capabilities.According to Azar, Israel had “degraded” Iran’s missile programme and “very widely devastated” its nuclear infrastructure. He added that Israeli operations had targeted “more than 10k military of Iran, including the top press, the intelligence press, their navy, their air force.”

Azar rejected suggestions that regime change was a stated goal. “What they said is that we are going to undermine debilitate the force of this regime… to give a chance to Iranian people to embrace their future,” he said.On Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Azar said its capabilities had been significantly reduced. “At this point we have degraded their capabilities to the extent that they are not capable to reach the rich uranium,” he said, adding that any renewed activity would be detected and countered.Addressing concerns over the Strait of Hormuz, he said Iran had committed to keeping the route open during the ceasefire period. “The commitment in the context of a two weeks ceasefire is a complete and unimpeded opening of the straits of Hormuz,” he said.Watch full video here:

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Iran and the US have agreed to a conditional two-week ceasefire, during which shipping traffic will be allowed through the Strait of Hormuz. This comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched co-ordinated attacks on Iran, and hours after US President Donald Trump threatened "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if Iran did not reopen the Strait.Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has been mediating negotiations, said early on Wednesday that the ceasefire was effective immediately.Iran has agreed to allow vessels through the Hormuz Strait for two weeks, with their passage coordinated by the Iranian military.The country has also issued a 10-point plan, which includes, among other things, the complete cessation of war in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen; "full commitment" to lifting sanctions on Iran; the release of Iranian funds and frozen assets held by the US; and a "full payment of compensation for reconstruction costs" to Iran.It also says, "Iran fully commits to not seeking possession of any nuclear weapons"."Iran's victory in the field would also be consolidated in political negotiations," Tehran's Supreme National Security Council said in a statement.