Netanyahu: Bad Deal a ‘Historic Mistake’

Netanyahu: Bad Iran Deal a ‘Historic Mistake’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the United States and other powers would make a “historic mistake” by accepting a deal with Iran that does not dismantle its capacity to make a nuclear bomb—something it is “nowhere near accepting” in the negotiations thus far.

Netanyahu urged the U.S. to avoid making a bad deal with Iran that would leave its nuclear program intact:

Don’t dismantle sanctions before you dismantle Iran’s capacity to make a nuclear bomb. And as I understand it, the Iranians are nowhere near to accepting that and if for any reason the United States and the other powers agree to leave Iran with that capacity to break out, I think that would be a historic mistake not only because it endangers my country, Israel–that Iran’s ruler, the Ayatollah Khameini wants to annihilate–but endangers the entire middle east and the world.