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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues his efforts to enlist support for Israel’s position, opposing the deal signed with Iran.

During a meeting in Jerusalem with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Mr. Netanyahu spoke of Israel’s concerns surrounding the agreement signed with Iran. Following is an excerpt of his remarks.

“Earlier today I met US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter. I told him that the deal with Iran poses grave threats to Israel and the Middle East, to Europe and the world.

It will put Iran at the threshold of an entire nuclear arsenal within a decade, because at that time the deal permits Iran to build as many centrifuges as it wants and to enrich as much uranium as it wants, which means that Iran could break out in a decade or so to dozens of nuclear bombs in zero time.

And almost immediately, starting from this year, as the deal passes, the deal will give Iran hundreds of billions of dollars to bankroll its aggression in the region and its terrorism around the world.

That’s more money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, more money for the Quds Force, for Hezbollah, for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, for the Libyan proxy terrorists of Iran, more money for the Shiite militias in Iraq, for the Houthis in Yemen.

This bad deal is a historic mistake.

Now, we’re repeatedly told that no deal is better than a bad deal.

Well, this is a bad deal.

Yet today we are told that the whole world supports this bad deal.

Well, that’s just not true.

Israel and many Arab states oppose this deal. And in any case sometimes the entire world can be wrong. It was dead wrong on another nuclear deal – the one with North Korea.

We were told then by the international community, the scientific community, the arms control community that that deal would prevent North Korea from getting nuclear weapons and it would make the world safer.

Well, we all know how that turned out.”

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)