Netanyahu: US nuclear deal pullout ‘most important’ event in region this year

16 January 2019, 6:23 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, at his office in Jerusalem.

“The most important thing that happened this year in this region,” he tells the American pro-Israel group, according to a Hebrew-language statement from his office, “was President Trump’s decision to leave the [Iran] nuclear deal, which has caused the Iranian economy to crash. The nuclear deal filled Iranian coffers, and those funds went straight to Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.”

Netanyahu adds: “The second dramatic thing that happened was our military actions in Syria to prevent Iran from entrenching militarily against us in Syria.”