Ya’alon says nuclear deal ‘a tragedy’

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says the emerging deal with Iran is “a very bad deal.”

Turning Iran into a nuclear threshold state “would be nothing less than a tragedy for the moderate regimes in the Middle East and the entire Western world,” Ya’alon says.

Pointing to its support for the rebels in Yemen, he says: “Instead of punishing for it, Iran is getting a prize. Instead of issuing an uncompromising ultimatum to stop its support for terror — from Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon to the Palestinians, the Far East, Europe, Africa, and North America — the West is welcoming Iran to the family of nations through the front door.”

Ya’alon continues: “You don’t need to be an intelligence officer to see Iran is lying barefacedly, and is today the greatest danger to the stability of the Middle East.”