Philip Hammond told Parliament that Israel “doesn’t want any deal with Iran”.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps calling the Iran nuke deal a “historic mistake.” Apparently, Netanyahu feels able to travel into the future so that he can look back at the latest events in historical context.
AIPAC has been described as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, but during the Obama administration, due to the strained relationship between the USA and Israel, it has had difficulty maintaining the traditional bipartisan consensus on support for Israel.
“The question is how much the Democrats will be willing to debate with the president”, said Ephraim Kam, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies.
Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel was not bound by the deal, signalling that he remained ready to order military action. The Jewish nation said that it would do whatever possible to kill the deal.
“This cash bonanza will fuel Iran’s terrorism worldwide, its aggression in region, and its efforts to destroy Israel, which are ongoing”, he said.
“They’re going to put it in their war machine”, he said.
A law that President Barack Obama signed earlier this year gives him five days to submit the agreement to Congress for review and provides for a condensed, 60-day period for Congress to hold hearings and consider legislation that would bar him from lifting sanctions that lawmakers have enacted in recent years.
“The real alternative to a deal that prevents Iran building a nuclear bomb nearly at some stage would have been war”.
Trump, who has been under fire for insulting comments he made about Mexicans while launching his bid for president, said Iranians were “great negotiators” and its leaders were “laughing at the stupidity of the deal” with the U.S. Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense in 2013, despite his poor record on Israel, and in 2014 it backed away from new sanctions on Iran.
President Obama said Tuesday morning that he believes the deal is a strong one. “Hard-nosed diplomacy and leadership that has united the world’s major powers offers a more effective way to verify that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon”.
Relations between the countries are so close that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are reportedly fighting alongside Shiite militias against the so-called Islamic State. I think she could negotiate a better deal than this.
“So you can imagine if you’re Israel sitting there”, said Senator Bob Corker.
After the announced signing of the agreement with Iran in Vienna, responses to that agreement where heard around the world.
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Asked what extra weapons Israel might request from the United States, Steinitz would not be drawn, saying the only acceptable compensation would be an agreement that prevents Tehran producing nuclear arms. He said the USA and Israel simply have “an honest policy difference”. Hammond said around 90 billion pounds ($140 billion) of Iranian assets could be released over time as a result of the deal. He says that will endanger Israel.
