Video Netanyahu Says Deal Puts Iran On Track For Huge Nuclear Arsenal
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned Sunday that Iran will “cheat” on the nuclear agreement with the Obama administration and other power and could develop a nuclear weapon within a decade.
Senate Republicans – and some Democrats – argued that the administration is about to give more credibilty to an the global body by having the United Nations approve the already divisive Iranian nuclear pact that lawmakers have not yet reviewed nor have they set a date for a full-floor vote to authorize it.
Carter is scheduled to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday and with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday before traveling to Saudi Arabia and Jordan to consult on the implications of the Iran deal and to assess progress in the regional campaign against the Islamic State. “While they have many differences within that country they are very much aligned on their concern about the Iran deal I’ve talked to others around the country and around the world“, Walker said.
“Our policy regarding the arrogant USA government will not change”, Mr. Khamenei said in a televised address to mark Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim feast day at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Members of the panel are Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, the European Union and Iran itself.
Mr. Carter’s visit to Saudi Arabia isn’t expected to include announcements of new weapons deals.
He insisted on ABC’s “This Week” that it was “a bad deal” and said he would tell visiting US Defense Secretary Ash Carter that Washington and the other powers should “hold out for a better deal”.
Announcing the deal being sent to Congress, a statement from Kerry’s department said: “Pursuant to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, today the State Department transmitted to Congress the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, its annexes, and related materials”.
The Israeli prime minister believes that the nuclear settlement reached in Vienna to curb Iran’s nuclear program doesn’t forestall however exclusively places off Iran from turning into a nuclear armed nation, and that enjoyable the strict sanctions regime provides it billions of dollars to achieve this. There have been repeated offers recently to increase the $3 billion US military aid package to Israel.
“Everybody talks about compensating Israel“, Netanyahu said Sunday.
He added that there was “a whole host of things we are doing with Israel”, including working “on their qualitative military edge, ballistic missile defence, counterterrorism activities”. But he said that doesn’t mean nothing is being done.
Netanyahu said Sunday during a weekly Cabinet meeting.
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani published a series of messages on his Twitter account, reporting the various expressions of support that the nuclear deal has received from world leaders. “I think that this is a repeat of the mistake of North Korea”, Netanyahu said. He has met with Holocaust survivors and a group of Iranian immigrants who do not like the deal.