Netanyahu rails at ‘desperate rush’ to restore Iran nuke deal

13 March 2022, 6:17 pm Edit

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In a video statement addressed to “every American family,” opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu rails at “the desperate rush” to restore the Iran nuclear deal.

Netanyahu notes the missiles fired overnight by Iran that struck near the US consulate in Iraq’s Erbil, which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed was targeting an Israeli “strategic center.”

“And the US continues to charge ahead along with the other powers to sign a nuclear agreement that will give the ayatollahs a nuclear arsenal. It will also relieve sanctions and give the ayatollahs hundreds of billions of dollars to continue the terror that they waged yesterday and wage everyday,” he says.

The former prime minister charges that a restored deal “is even worse than its predecessor,” saying it will leave Iran a nuclear-threshold state in three years in terms of uranium enrichment capabilities and allow it develop ICBMS that can reach “any place in the United States.”

“That is unbelievable. It’s not merely unacceptable. It endangers not only my country Israel, but your country the United States, and also the entire world,” says Netanyahu, who was an outspoken critic of the original accord when it was signed in 2015.