Nuclear deal with Iran a 'historic mistake', Benjamin Netanyahu says
Israel's political establishment arose in unison on Sunday to
denounce as inadequate an interim agreement hammered out with Iran to
rein in its nuclear programme.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, led the chorus of
indignation, calling the deal struck in Geneva between Iran and the
so-called P5 plus one – the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and
Germany – "a historic mistake".
"What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it is a historic mistake,"
he told Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting "Today the world has become a
much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world
has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon
in the world.
Condemning the six powers for "ignoring the UN Security Council
decisions that they themselves led", he added: "This agreement and what
it means endanger many countries including, of course, Israel. Israel is
not bound by this agreement. The Iranian regime is committed to the
destruction of Israel and Israel has the right and the obligation to
defend itself, by itself, against any threat.
Mr Netanyahu's comments came after a procession of ministers and senior
officials had earlier taken aim at a "bad deal" which they said
effectively left Iran as a nuclear threshold state.
In the most graphic criticism, Naftali Bennett, the trade and
industry minister and leader of the far-Right Jewish Home party, warned
that it could be the precursor to a nuclear "suitcase bomb" attack on a
major Western city.
"If in another five years a suitcase nuke explodes in New York or Madrid, it will be because of the deal that was signed this morning," Mr Bennett, a member of the Israeli security cabinet, told Army Radio.
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