Netanyahu: Iran Deal ‘Historic Mistake’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has fought vociferously against any negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, vociferously condemned the announced deal Tuesday morning, calling it an “historic mistake.”

“Sweeping concessions were made in all of the areas meant to block Iran from the ability to arm itself with nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told Bloomberg in a statement. “We have made a commitment to block Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons, and that commitment stands.”

Bibi considers a nuclear Iran Israel’s preeminent existential threat, and has warned that only tough sanctions and the imminent threat of military action would stop them from producing a nuclear weapon. The administration considers its deal limiting Iran’s nuclear development in exchange for a loosening of sanctions to be the best path toward stopping Iran’s enrichment.

Netanyahu’s office announced it would continue to try to influence congressional resistance to the deal, as it did with Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session last spring, widely seen as a diplomatic rebuke to Obama.

“The prime minister is going to pursue with every available means at his disposal, his efforts of persuasion directed at the Congress, and American public opinion in general,”

Obama has vowed to veto any bill passed by Congress limiting the deal.

[h/t Bloomberg]
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