Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responding to Iran's decision to withdraw partially from the nuclear deal with world powers.
Netanyahu spoke Wednesday at a state Memorial Day ceremony in Jerusalem and said Israel would "not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons."
Israel's prime minister has been an outspoken critic of the 2015 agreement between Iran and world powers, and welcomed President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the deal last year. Netanyahu considers Iran to be Israel's greatest threat, and Iranian leaders frequently condemn Israel and call for its destruction.
Netanyahu says Israel "will continue to fight those who seek to take our lives, and we will thrust our roots even deeper into the soil of our homeland."
Netanyahu's remarks come hours after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would resume its uranium-enrichment activities if his country's interests -- as they pertain to a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers -- were not guaranteed within 60 days.
Iran has denied ever seeking nuclear weapons, insisting its atomic program is for entirely peaceful purposes.
Netanyahu has repeatedly stressed his government's rejection of the landmark agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany).
The deal had called for strict curbs on Iran's nuclear-development program in return for the lifting of longstanding U.S. sanctions on Tehran.
Last year, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear deal before re-imposing economic sanctions on Iran's energy and banking sectors.
