France must see past Rohani’s smiles, Netanyahu says

France must remain strong against Iran and its leader Hassan Rohani in order to prevent the country from having nuclear weapons capability, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told FRANCE 24 on Thursday.

France "should be tough on Iran, with or without Rohani’s smiles", Netanyahu told FRANCE24 Jerusalem correspondent Gallagher Fenwick.

"What Iran is putting forward with this smile campaign is an old position… they need the enrichment, the centrifuges and the heavy water plutonium reactor for one thing - to produce nuclear weapons, and we don’t want to give them that."

Netanyahu for now also ruled out the possibility of beginning dialogue with the Iranian Prime Minister.

"Call him an honest deceiver…You don’t normally call somebody who openly calls for your annihilation."