By JPOST.COM STAFF, 07/05/2015
At weekly cabinet meeting, prime minister says that deal emerging with Iran is worse than deal that led to North Korea obtaining an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed alarm at the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran currently taking place in Vienna.
Speaking at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that “what’s coming out of the nuclear talks in Vienna is not a breakthrough, it’s a breakdown.”
Netanyahu said that the world powers were conceding more and more with each passing day.
The emerging deal “will pave Iran’s way to produce the cores of many atomic bombs and it will also flood Iran with hundreds of millions of dollars that will serve it in its aggression and its mission of terror in the region and the world,” the prime minister warned.
Netanyahu claimed that the emerging deal with Iran was worse than the nuclear deal that had been signed with North Korea which led to Pyongyang obtaining an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
“However, here we are talking about a very big conventional and non-conventional threat against Israel, against the countries of the region and against the world,” he stated.
Iran and world powers made progress on future sanctions relief for Iran in marathon nuclear talks on Saturday, but remained divided on issues such as lifting United Nations sanctions and the development of advanced centrifuges.
Diplomats close to the negotiations said they had tentative agreement on a mechanism for suspending US and European Union sanctions on Iran.
But the six powers had yet to agree on a United Nations Security Council resolution that would lift UN sanctions and establish a means of re-imposing them in case of Iranian non-compliance with a future agreement.
“We still haven’t sorted a Security Council resolution,” a diplomat close to the talks told Reuters. “We don’t have Iran on board yet.”
Senior Iranian and Western diplomats echoed the remarks. Some of the toughest disputes, including the question of easing UN sanctions, were likely to be left for foreign ministers when they arrived in the Austrian capital on Sunday, officials said.
“Even if and when issues get resolved at an experts level, there will remain some open issues that can only be decided by ministers,” a senior US official told reporters.
Iran is in talks with the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia on an agreement to curtail its nuclear program for at least a decade in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
The negotiators missed a June 30 deadline for a final agreement, but have given themselves until July 7. Foreign ministers not in Vienna are expected to rejoin their counterparts in a final push for a deal beginning on Sunday.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
I don’t blame you for not wanting Obama. He is thought by many to be the worst president in the history of the USA. You are correct, each country gets the government they deserve.
@ alanmos@yahoo.com:
Nice try but no buy. Each got the governments we deserve. And we plan to change ours for a local brand.
Netanyahu is considered by a growing number of people here as being unfit for our needs right now but we know his family and his history. We can live with him as Finances Minister for example.
Mr. Hussein Barack Obama seems to be just what the US residents want right now.
Some of you here have criticized Netanyahu. As a citizen of the USA I know the disappointment living under the Obama administration. To those of you who don’t like Netanyahu would you be in favor of trading him for Obama if that was possible? Obama would destroy your economy and invite the Muslim brotherhood to his home for regular meetings while letting Foreigners come over your borders to take your jobs while making you pay for their food, clothing and pregnancies. We’d love to get Netanyahu and replace OBAMA with him. Who is in favor of the trade?
@ woolymammoth:
We spoke with him about future options but he is too honest and clean for the scenario here. Other considerations came into play as well.
Be well.
I wish Dr. Uzi Landau had become PM. Ok, message received.
@ woolymammoth:
The only dead wrong here is you woolly.
I am a rigid JEWISH “right wing” person, formerly in the LIKUD Central Committee and totally opposed to the scum you mention. I resigned from the Likud years back when Sharon took it over. We knew of his plans and so did Netanyahu who supported Sharon and his plans.
Dr. Landau knows me/us in person and for a long time. I was honored by having him attending our eldest daughter wedding. Several Likud principals were there as well.
I am also a former Senior-Fellow Engineer then with the US Department of Defense Military Avionics Programs and also an Invited Consultant to the Israel MoD.
Netanyahu has made terrible decisions on Iran and he alone is to be blamed for what we face now. The cockatrice cannot be turned back to stone once it is out.
He grotesquely allowed Iran to advance.
His stupid cardboard props and James Bond dings were as bad and a bad nightmare.
His face making while blaming “the world” are well past irresponsible.
Come on Woolly. Him and his pretend generals could not end HAMAS in 50 days man. They are hopeless and cannot be trusted.
I can go into a lot of details regarding facts but not in open forums.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2: No SHmuel, you think at this particular moment, ISRAEL should strike, that is ridiculous. Why did they hold back through all of these fruitless negotiations unless they intended to wait out the results of the negotiations before it declared to the world that the negotiations have proven themselves a failure and then do the job. If that is what you believe then I understand clearly why you are opposed to Netanyahu, your team is Livni and Olmert or better yet Airy Dairy or ShitStreet. Perhaps you prefer Beilin or the flip flopper of the year Lieberman. You think somehow since you feel frustrated at any given moment, ISRAEL must attack to relieve your personal animosity, no sir, of course not. ISRAEL has a strategy at work here, it involves other regional partners with an unlimited supply of cash, when the time is right, there will be a decision. Until then I urge you to drink hot tea to stay cool. You twisted my words, but that is okay, nice try.
You can blame American Jews for supporting Obama, I do, and you can blame Israeli Jews for the same act of stupidity, but to equate OBAMA to Netanyahu is pushing incredulity to the limit. For Netanyahu, serving as POTUS would be a piece of cake. I strongly disagreed with many decisions he made not least of which was the huge prisoner release, but it did not occur in a vacuum, it was Obama’s doing. Look at what the Great War hero Arik did. He forced ISRAEL
To evacuate Gaza. His name is mud today. Forget his performance in ’73 or ’67. I was opposed to the Gaza withdrawal. After the final withdrawal was approved by the Knesset, I told Uzi Landau that Gaza would be taken over by Hamas and he agreed, yet he could think of no mechanism for stopping the withdrawal. Now, if I could see that as a natural outcome of Sharon’s Gaza retreat, could it be that General Sharon did not know it. Of course he knew it. So, why did he do it. Not as some would believe that it was to protest the high price of Halvah for I know for a fact that Sharon never paid for halvah, it was given to him as a gift…and it probablyobably killed him. No, Sharon withdrew from Gaza, knowing it would be taken by Hamas and that would prevent an even worse catastrophe instigated by The US, Europe, Russia, China, The UN And The Vatican.
He went before the U.S. congress, with all of the inherent risks…and zero potential reward. When has the Congress defied Obama?
Does Iran have the bomb? Iran now has the world’s de facto permission to get the bomb.
If Netanyahu were in fact a total failure, would OBAMA not love him… Anti-Semites do not love Jews. It is kind of definitionally inherent.
Netanyahu is John Boehner; lots of conservative bluster, but when push comes to shove they both always find excuses for being submissive to Obama.
@ woolymammoth:
In second thought lets accept your completely wrong conceptualization. Just as the Jews in Europe did as Hitler matured his plans. They were correct, where they not?
Let the Jews wait until AFTER Iran completely arms itself with nuclear devices and then stop playing with ourselves. No!, Wait.
Lets wait until after they deliver at least one nuclear blow. Then act…
Netanyahu is a blow hard empty sack of hot air at best.
And that is what prompts local Jews to go for him. Just as the US former Jews, unJews, support presidente Hussein Barack Obama.
As a Russian proverb puts it:
“He looked up and discovered the sky.”
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2: Netanyahu is a total failure, at a minimum, so you tell us. I guess you are referring specifically to Iran. Well is that in fact true. No, it is not true. What do you want from this man?
Would you prefer he shoot from the hip and undermine the negotiations with a shock and awe frontal attack on Iranian nuclear assets at this point in time. That would be dumb. Has he kept the issue alive in such a way as to make clear that such an operation although a serious contingency plan is not the best option, hypothetically. That is hypothetical that an agreement which would/could put to rest any chance of Iranian nuke production. Yes he has and probably louder and more articulate campaign, no one else on earth has mounted to date. He went before the U.S. congress, with all of the inherent risks and costs, he remained cool in the face of the OBAMA inspired muslin brotherhood takeover of Egypt, as well as the successful alliance put into place with the present gov’t, which has for one resulted in Egypt announcing the return of it’s Ambassador to Israel. Ok so you have a personal bone to pick with Bibi. You are not the only one, but can you blame him for playing political hardball in Israeli politics. Look at reality of Israeli politics and tell me he could have not only survived, but flourished, in this turbulent arena.
The jury is still out on Netanyahu’s legacy. Is there a PALESTINIAN State? No, not a total failure yet. Does Iran have the bomb? No, not a total failure yet. Who is the Israeli best suited to protect ISRAEL from it’s enemies including the one occupying The White House, an occupation, the occupation which must end? If Netanyahu were in fact a total failure, would OBAMA not love him. These are rhetorical questions, because there is no doubt whom ISRAEL has chosen and considering the alternatives, it was OBVIOUSLY a good call.
Is he not el fantastico when it comes to tell us things?
Great yarn teller the fellow.
Nothing done by him or the uniformed clowns around him other than videos using cardboard props, story telling and super duper ultra secret fantastic stunts… that mean “drei mul gurnisht”.
Netanyahu was a total failure and we only need to find if there is more than that as well.