After arriving back in Israel, Netanyahu responds to Obama’s claim that he offered nothing new in his Congress address, saying that lawmakers understand better now why the deal is bad.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his speech to the US Congress offered a “practical alternative” to a possible Iranian nuclear deal and that lawmakers now “understand better” why the deal is bad.
Netanyahu’s assertion came after President Barack Obama said the Israeli leader had offered no viable alternative to preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
“There was nothing new” in the speech, Obama said. He said Netanyahu made almost the same speech when he warned against the interim deal reached with Iran, but that the interim deal has resulted in a freeze and rolling back of Iran’s nuclear program.
In a statement released after he landed in Israel, Netanyahu said the alternative deal he presented in Congress would make it harder for Iran to get the nuclear bomb.
“I proposed a practical alternative that through tougher restrictions would extend the breakout time, by years, that it would take Iran to reach a nuclear weapon if it decides to breach the agreement,” the Israeli prime minister said.
He said his proposal would also maintain restrictions until Tehran stops “its sponsorship of terrorism around the world, its aggression against its neighbors and its calls for Israel’s destruction.”
He said he received “very encouraging” responses from Democrats and Republicans to his speech. “I received the impression that they understand better why this deal is bad and what the right alternative to this deal is,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu’s contentious speech to Congress on Tuesday took place despite objections by the White House, aggravating his already-strained relations with Obama.
The West fears Iran could build an atomic bomb with its nuclear program. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes such as energy production and medical research.
Iran and the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany reached an interim accord in November 2013. Now, negotiators hope to reach a rough draft of a deal on Iran’s disputed nuclear program by the end of March and a final agreement by June 30.
There are a lot of deals which we are not aware of in the subject of Iran. Nifty little stinky secrets…..IMHO sooner or later Iran will get the bomb, unless there is a BIG coup d’etat. As a consequence we will have an arms race due to the fact that nobody in the past had the guts to “follow the trail of the money” and made a big stink about it. That includes Israel (unless somebody can correct me). And that will be Shmobama”s legacy………………….an exploding Middle East.
What’s interesting are the ramifications.
There is a lot of Iranian activity in Argentina, and in the borders of Arg., Paraguay and Bolivia were officials are easily bribed. The Nisman case is related to it. The President of Argentina comes out every day w/ a different position which leads me to believe that “confusing” the world is the first step to obfuscation…………..Argentina has a Jewish Foreign Minister, that is appalling and if somebody can print in Israpundit anything on him I’ll be glad to desiminate. And of no least importance is the fact that everybody is so occupied w/Bibi that the rest of the world has lost its importance………………