Benjamin Netanyahu held firm that the recently reached framework for a nuclear deal with Iran is not a good one.
“A better deal would roll back Iran’s vast nuclear infrastructure,” the Israeli prime minister said on CNN Sunday morning.
The current deal is not a good one because it “doesn’t roll back Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. … Thousands of centrifuges will keep spinning and enriching uranium,” he said.
What’s more is that the deal will remove sanctions placed on Iran, which will in turn allow “billions and billions of dollars to flow into Iran’s coffers [and to] pump up its terror machine,” Netanyahu said, adding that in the deal, “no one is asking Iran to stop its aggression in the region and stop its call for annihilation of Israel.”
When asked whether the tensions between the U.S. and Israel and the President Obama and himself have anything to do with his dislike of the deal, Netanyahu rebuked: “This is not a partisan issue. This is not solely an Israeli issue — this is a world issue.”
Asked whether he trusts Obama, Netanyahu said, “I trust the president is doing what he thinks is best for the United States. We have a mutual respectful relationship.”
A framework for a nuclear deal with Iran and six world powers — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — was reached Thursday.
