“Cabinet Minister Miri Regev said the agreement gave Iran a ‘license to kill.'” Yes. “Netanyahu calls Iran nuclear agreement a ‘bad mistake of historic proportions,'” Fox News, July 14, 2015:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, led by the United States, was “a bad mistake of historic proportions.”
Netanyahu gave his thoughts on the agreement prior to the start of a meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders in Jerusalem and vowed to continue efforts to block Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“Iran is going to receive a sure path to nuclear weapons. Many of the restrictions that were supposed to prevent it from getting there will be lifted,” Netanyahu said. “Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world.”
“One cannot prevent an agreement when the negotiators are willing to make more and more concessions to those who, even during the talks, keep chanting: ‘Death to America,”‘ Netanyahu added. “We knew very well that the desire to sign an agreement was stronger than anything, and therefore we did not commit to preventing an agreement. We did commit to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and this commitment still stands.”
Culture and sports minister Miri Regev, a former military spokeswoman, said the deal gave Tehran a “license to kill.” Regev also described the pact as “bad for the free world (and) bad for humanity.” She called for further lobbying against the deal and said that the U.S. Congress could still block it.
Meanwhile, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely tweeted her displeasure with the deal, calling it “a capitulation of historic proportions by the West to the Iran-led axis of evil.” She added Israel “will employ all diplomatic means to prevent confirmation of the agreement.”
Netanyahu’s coalition partners angrily criticized Wednesday’s agreement. Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the hawkish Jewish Home party, said July 14 will be remembered a “dark day for the free world.” Cabinet Minister Miri Regev said the agreement gave Iran a “license to kill.”
The cascade of criticism crossed party lines, reflecting the widespread opposition to the deal in Israel.
“This is a regime based in deceit, and now they are going to do what they did for the last 20 years, which is trying to get themselves nuclear weapons behind the back of the world,” Yair Lapid, the head of the opposition Yesh Atid Party, told The Associated Press. “Now they are going to do it with the help of the international community.”
In the past, Israel has threatened to carry out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations. But that option appeared to fade as the U.S.-led group of powers engaged in diplomacy with Iran.
Israel’s first course of action looks to be an intense lobbying effort in the U.S. Congress to oppose the deal. Netanyahu spoke against the emerging deal before a joint session of Congress in March. Yet despite strong support among Republicans in Congress, there is little that can be done now.
The Senate can weigh in on the agreement but can’t kill it, because Obama doesn’t need congressional approval for a multinational deal that is not designated a treaty….
American says
What a disaster! Worst possible outcome. While ineptitude was certainly a contributing factor, there must be more to it than that. Nobody can be this stupid. It’s like handing your enemy your gun, and then paying him to shoot you. Unbelievable.
spot on says
B.O. must be lining his pockets like Bill and Hillary. No other explanation fits. No one can be that stupid except for the citizens who support this kind of crap. There are 20-25% of the population that hate America. They all support B.O. They are too stupid to realize that they are also in Iran’s cross-hairs and that B.O. just sold them down the river.
Susan B says
When is the (p)resident in the WH going to be arrested for treason. What is wrong with the other “so called” leaders, do they have a death wish?
katnis says
What horrible news. Netanyahu is right. This is the end of the world as we know it.
Bamaguje says
Bibi should stop talking, and start bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities.
RG says
OMG! OMG! OMG! If any other president had done this, he’d be impeached and tried for treasonous anti-American activity – not to mention, hate-crimes against the people of the United States. I think ‘American’s’ comment (above) sums it all up in a nutshell. I’m expecting any day now, for Obama to pay a visit to his Iranian ‘ayatrolla’ and kiss his big fat “stick”!
Angemon says
That’s an understatement…
Emmie says
It is the beginning of a nightmare for the entire world!
Charli Main says
I wouldn´t be at all surprised to learn, in the next few months, that a catastrophic nuclear “accident” has occurred in Iran.
Rebecca says
I don’t get what were getting in return for giving Iran billions of dollars? Why didn’t Obama demand that they dismantle their program? Is he suicidal? I don’t think, in the entire history of the world, that we have been in such danger. I don’t feel safe, and pray to G-d to protect us all and all of our children.
Ric says
Obama isn’t suicidal, he surely has a bunker or three somewhere on this forlorn planet. This said, it is we, especially the Israelis who have been placed on the precipice of annihilation, thanks to this godless, gormless so-called president.
Obama loathes Judaism, Israel and others of a diversified faith with the exception of Islam. Obama along with his Euro counterparts perceive Israel as the instigator of all that ails the Middle East. Most, if it were spoken truthfully, would prefer to see Israel vanish, by whichever means.
Nothing has changed over the decades since the Final Solution, the Shoah. Platitudes spewed by the likes of Obama and other Western leadership are shallow, hollow rhetoric from the mouths of these anti-Semitic, anti-Israel leaders. The worst of those being, Obama and his comrades of the Democratic Party.
duh_swami says
If you make a deal with people you know can’t be trusted, what kind of outcome would you expect?
Ralph Griffin says
Absolutely frightening! Are you kidding me????
Let’s hope Israel never has to say ” I told you so ” and that they remain leery of Iran despite any ill begotten deal.
I don’t know what the hell Obama is doing, he does know Iranians hate America and all Americans right?
This is a terrorist regime and long time mortal enemy of democracy and freedom and you just handed them a loaded nuclear gun and hung your allies out to dry.
Talk about the worst parts of the bible coming to pass, hint: I read the ending, we lost.
David, Thailand says
One of the last executive pardons Obama will issue before leaving office, will be to give himself immunity from prosecution for triggering the fall of the free world.
Peggy says
What does Obama have to do for people of the US to see him for what he is?. He has taken the mask right off and is shouting to all who he really is and still there are so many worshiping him.
Unbelievable, he is not even hiding who he is any longer. This can only mean that there is nothing anyone can do.
Winston Churchill says
In this mad world, nobody can do anything about the deceit against the people. The people are totally brain dead, and completely lost. Only if the people take the control away from the politicians and create a direct democracy is there any chance of change
Baucent says
Be very interesting to see Israeli strategy play out going forward. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if we see an Odd Couple relationship with Saudi Arabia emerge. Israel’s best hope of restraining Iran is to play on the Sunni/Shia hatred and try to isolate Iran in the region. At the very least Israel will need long range missiles aimed at Tehran to try an restrain the madness of the mullahs.
Yeshayhu Hollander says
YH
a POEM,
DEDICATED TO THE DIPLOMATS
“VERIFIABLE”
24 days advance notice – That’s the inspection deal –
24 days advance notice – It doesn’t seem to be real!
24 days advance notice – Who the hell are they fooling?
24 days advance notice – This leaves the Ayatullahs drooling,
24 day advance notice – A reason for diplomats to rejoice –
24 day advance notice – Leaving Israel no choice!
24 day advance notice – Can they be pulling our leg?
24 day advance notice – Turning Iran into a nuclear powder keg!
24 day advance notice – WAKE ME UP
24 day advance notice – BEFORE THE BOMBS BEGIN TO POP
Emmie says
I am afraid for Israel and the rest of the world.
ich says
Barry does not care.
Hes counting the days to hang out with Will Smith.
He knows if the deal backfires they can blame Bush.
Reality means nothing to them.
At least it seems that way to me .