Israel warmly welcomes US Pentagon chief Carter

“That’s not the purpose of my trip”, he admitted to reporters en route to Tel Aviv, Reuters reported.

Israel also has expressed concern that U.S. sales of advanced weaponry to Gulf Arab states has the potential of offsetting, to some degree, Israel’s qualitative military edge. The 10 non-permanent council members were briefed on the draft and none objected to the text.

The major powers are hoping Iran will now help in tamping down regional crises that the UN Security Council cannot halt as it struggles with deep divisions between Russia and Western powers.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he would tear the deal up on his first day in office if elected president. Critics have also complained that the lifting of sanctions and the eventual ending of an arms embargo will empower Iran to act against U.S. interests around the world.

Even as tensions between the U.S. and Israel have grown over how to contain Iran’s nuclear program has grown, the U.S.-Israel defense relationship has deepened in recent years.

“I’d say one must did that often otherwise, especially while he suspected that most of us Social Democrats are merely equipped…” Schumer has received nearly $259,000 in contributions from supporters of Israel in the past six years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Not included is the Pentagon’s biggest bunker buster bomb.

The hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee is waging an all-hands-on-deck campaign to convince lawmakers that they should reject the deal. “I plan to analyze the merits of the deal and the impact it will have our nation’s security as well as the security of our allies”.

“As long as the Iranian leadership is encouraging calls of ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’, there is no reason to make any concessions to them”, Netanyahu added.

“The real fear of that region should be that you don’t have the deal,” Kerry said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “And we’re going to work very hard”.

Increased U.S. military aid to Israel is expected to be on the table, Reuters reported. He said the deal does nothing to remove that option.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei giving a sermon during the Eid al-Fitr prayer in Tehran on Saturday. “No deal is better than a bad deal, particularly one that releases billions of dollars to a country that is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world”.

Obama’s principal military adviser, Gen. Martin Dempsey, met with Netanyahu and Israeli military officials just last month.

In the interview that aired Sunday on “This Week“, Netanyahu elaborated that, “Iran actually gets both things”.

He was apparently referring to the 1994 deal with North Korea under which the communist nation promised to freeze and ultimately dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for economic and political concessions.

“I certainly hope so”, she said.

AP contributed to this report.

Information for this article was contributed by Deb Riechmann and Laurie Kellman of The Associated Press and by Mark Rohner of Bloomberg News.