Jerusalem - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lined up talks with security chiefs Friday after Iran and world powers signed the outlines of a landmark nuclear deal despite strong Israeli opposition.
Officials slammed Thursday's announcement in Lausanne of a framework accord as a "historic mistake", warning that if implemented it would jeopardise the Jewish state's very existence.
Local media said Netanyahu called a meeting of his security cabinet and senior officials from Israel's security services.
"The prime minister will hold security consultations," an aide told AFP.
Government spokesman Mark Regev told reporters in Jerusalem that the path to a permanent deal agreed in Switzerland was "a very, very dangerous direction".
"This is a bad deal not just for Israel, this is a bad deal for the region and for the world," he told AFP.
"Iran's nuclear programme doesn't just threaten my country, Iran's nuclear programme threatens the peace and the security of the world."
The framework deal clinched by Iran and the so-called P5+1 group of nations marked a significant breakthrough in a 12-year stand off between Tehran and world powers over its nuclear programme.
Under the outline agreement, Iran agreed to sharply curtail its uranium enrichment capacity in return for the lifting of punitive sanctions that have crippled the country's economy.
Regev quoted Netanyahu as saying that the deal as it appears to be emerging "would not block Iran's path to the bomb. It would pave it".
"It would increase the risks of nuclear proliferation and the risks of a horrific war," he tweeted late Thursday.
Tehran has denied seeking a nuclear weapon but Israel has repeatedly warned that Iran's ability to obtain a bomb would endanger the entire region.
Israel is the Middle East's sole, albeit unacknowledged, nuclear power.
Repeating previous Israeli warnings, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said Thursday that all options were open.
"If we have no choice, we have no choice ... the military option is on the table," he said.
AFP
