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Netanyahu warns US against 'nuclear nightmare' if 'bad' Iran deal is made

March 4, 2015 at 9:44 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned the United States against signing a “bad deal with Iran” that could spark a “nuclear nightmare” and put Israel at risk, the Anadolu Agency reported.

During his speech before US Congress yesterday, Netanyahu said the Islamic Republic of Iran competes with the Islamic State (ISIS) for the production of “militant Islam” but under different names.

“When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy,” the Israeli prime minister added.

Netanyahu stressed that the agreement with Iran “will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons, lots of them”.

“We’ll face a much more dangerous Iran, a Middle East littered with nuclear bombs and a countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare,” the Israeli leader said.

Netanyahu’s address to Congress came at a Republican invitation that bypassed the White House, triggering a diplomatic storm.

Many Democrats considered the speech an insult to the president.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called the speech “an insult to the intelligence of the United States” and that she was so “saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran” that she was near tears.

As many as 60 of the 232 Democratic members of Congress did not attend the address.