Israeli Reporter to Obama: If You Are Wrong on Iran, ‘Bomb Will Hit Tel Aviv First’

Israeli Reporter To Obama: If You Are Wrong On Iran, "Bomb Will Hit Tel Aviv First" (RealClearPolitics)

President Obama welcomes Ilana Dayan, an Israeli reporter, for a wide ranging, hard hitting issue.

ILANA DAYAN, ISRAELI CHANNEL 2: Mr. President, there is a remarkably sincere observation you made once. You said "nothing comes to my desk that is perfectly solvable." And you said "any given decision I make, I'll wind up with a 30-40 percent chance that it isn't going to work."

I'm afraid Israelis can not afford even a three to four percent chance that you are wrong Mr. President, because if you are, the bomb will hit Tel Aviv first.

BARACK OBAMA: Let's back up on this. We have imposed the most effective sanctions on Iran over the course of the last five years which has caused them to lose a decade of growth. At the time, people were skeptical... Then we were able to force Iran to the negotiation table because of the effective sanctions. And I said that in exchange for some modest relief, in sanctions, they are going to have to freeze its nuclear program, roll back on its stockpiles, the very stockpiles that Prime Minster Netanyahu went before the negotiations with a picture of the bomb, said that was proof of how dangerous this was.

All that stockpile is gone...

Over a year and a half later, we know they have abided by the letter of it.