Posted on 04/05/2015 8:30:17 AM PDT by Dave346
Nuclear deal "leaves the pre-eminent terrorist state of our time with a vast nuclear infrastructure," PM tells NBC.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his arguments against the Iran nuclear deal to the US public on Sunday, giving interviews on three Sunday morning news shows and saying he was not against any deal with Iran, just a “bad deal.”
Netanyahu said on NBC's “Meet the Press,” that he was trying to “kill a bad deal.” He said to those calling it a “historic deal,” that it “could be a historically bad deal.” This, he added, is “because it leaves the preeminent terrorist state of our time with a vast nuclear infrastructure, not one centrifuge destroyed, thousands of centrifuges would be left spinning uranium, and not a single facility – including an underground nuclear facility – is being shut down.”
Netanyahu said that the deal will leave Iran with a capacity to produce material for many nuclear bombs, and “does so by lifting the sanctions pretty much up front.”
“The billions of dollars Iran will have flowing through its coffers will not be for schools, hospitals or roads, “but to pump its world wide terror machine and military machine that is busy conquering the Middle East as we speak.”
Netanyahu said the “preeminent terrorist state of our time should not have access to the vast nuclear capability that will ultimately give them nuclear weapons.”
Asked whether he doesn't feel isolated, given that the US, Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia are all in favor of the deal, he recalled that the entire world celebrated the nuclear deal with North Korea in 1994. “It was deemed to be a great breakthrough,” he said, “with inspectors that would do the job. And everyone applauded it. But it turned out to be a very, very bad deal.”
The prime minister said he feared that the same thing would be true of Iran, “except Iran is a great deal more dangerous than North Korea. It is a militant Islamic power bent on regional and world domination.”
Asked if Israel still had a military option, Netanyahu demurred, saying that he “is the only Israeli left standing that never talks about our military option.” He said it was obvious Jerusalem preferred a diplomatic option, because in any military action Israel would be the country to pay the biggest price.
“We want a diplomatic solution, but a good one, one that rolls back Iran's infrastructure and ties the final lifting of restrictions on Iran's nuclear program with a change in Iran's behavior,” he said.
Netanyahu also said that one of the “tragic” results of the deal is that -- if it goes through -- it would “spark “ a nuclear arms race among the Sunni states in the region.” A Middle east crisscrossed with “nuclear trip-wires” is a “nightmare” for the world,” he said.
Netanyahu also granted interviews to ABC and CNN, and on the later network argued that the crippling sanctions imposed in 2012 were what brought Iran “immediately” to the table.
“If they worked to get them to the table, why when you get to the table, do you start lifting them immediately? In fact, apply those pressures because they do work. That is what’s required” he said.
Asked to what degree he was coordinating strategy on this issue with the Republican leadership, given that House Speaker John Boehner was in the country last week, Netanyahu denied that he was approaching the issue “on a partisan basis.”
“I’ve talked to about two-thirds of the representatives of the United States House of Representatives and probably an equal number of senators, from both sides of the aisle,” he said. “This is not a partisan issue. This is not even solely an Israeli issue. This is a world issue, because everyone is going to be threatened by the preeminent terrorist state of our time.”
Netanyahu was also asked whether he trusted US President Barack Obama, and replied that he trusts that the president was doing what he thought was good for the US. “I think that we can have a legitimate difference of opinion on this, because I think Iran has shown to be completely distrustful,” he said.
The prime minister added that this was not “a personal issue,” between him and Obama, whom he said he respected, and with whom he has a “mutually respectful” relationship.
He asserted that this was “a difference in policy, not a clash of personalities.”
Obama’s plan from day one was to remove the Sanctions ,the Deal part is nothing ,he was working for Iran from the start ,but I think Iran don’t trust him ,LOL
They got everything and gave nothing.
What a great deal (for them.)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nails it.
There is zero chance of a good deal with Iran, so Bibi is lying.
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