Netanyahu: Americans oppose Iran deal

Despite apparently losing the ability to block the nuclear deal in Congress, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to rally against the agreement, telling a gathering of diplomats that most Americans oppose the pact with Iran.

“The overwhelming majority of the American public sees eye to eye with us on the danger from Iran, and it is important to reach out to American public opinion with the fact that Iran is the enemy of the US, it declares this openly, and Israel is the ally of the US,” he tells Foreign Ministry workers at a pre-holiday gathering. “This understanding has important ramifications for our future security.”

Netanyahu also thanks the diplomats for their efforts to fight anti-Israel efforts in capitals around the world.

“We must constantly refute the terrible denigrations of the state of the Jews, something which is in our power to do, in contrast to the thousands of years of our history in which we could not and when we did not have the ability to refute the terrible denigrations of the Jews,” he says. “What was true for the Jews themselves is true for the state of the Jews, with one difference: Today we have a state, an army and a foreign ministry.”