Obama dismisses Netanyahu’s speech

Barack Obama (Official Whitehouse Photograph)

US President Barack Obama dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s warnings about Iran and negotiations with Iran are continuing:

March 4, 2015

MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND—

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have launched a third day of nuclear talks, on the heels of a Tuesday speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who spelled out before the U.S. Congress why he believed an Iran nuclear deal would be dangerous for the world.

President Barack Obama criticized the prime minister’s speech saying, “there was nothing new” and Netanyahu “didn’t offer any viable alternatives” as he criticized a potential nuclear deal. http://www.voanews.com/content/kerry-zarif-launch-third-day-of-talks/2667070.html

March 4, 2015

US President Barack Obama has reacted scathingly to a speech by the Israeli prime minister that castigated his policy towards Iran.

In a speech to the US Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu warned that a deal under discussion on Iran’s nuclear programme could “pave Iran’s path to the bomb” rather than block it.

But Mr Obama said Mr Netanyahu had offered no viable alternative. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31722493

As far as whether or not any viable alternatives were offered by Benjamin Netanyahu, a reader sent the following news item:

Although a first response to his speech from an unnamed White House official said that Netanyahu had offered “no concrete alternative” to the deal taking shape, and that his speech was “all rhetoric and no action,” and despite Obama’s subsequent elaborate defense of the US approach, the prime minister did offer an alternative.

He urged the P5+1 to recalibrate, to reconsider, and then to push for a better deal. And “if Iran threatens to walk away from the table — and this often happens in a Persian bazaar — call their bluff,” he advised, the wise, wary Middle Easterner lecturing Obama and the other Western naifs. “They’ll be back, because they need the deal a lot more than you do.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-devastating-irrevocable-indictment-of-obama/

Another news source reported a bit more on that:

March 4, 2015

Obama told reporters that there was a lots of context in Netanyahu’s speech on which they agree, including “that Iran has been a dangerous regime and continues to engage in activities that are contrary to the interest of the United States, to Israel, and to the region.”

On the “core issue” of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, the president said, “the prime minister didn’t offer any viable alternatives.”

“Now, the deal that we are trying to negotiate that is not yet completed would cut off the different pathways for Iran to advance its nuclear capabilities. It would roll back some elements of its program. It would ensure that it did not have what we call a breakout capacity that was shorter than a year’s time. And it would subject Iran to the most vigorous inspections and verifications regimes that have ever been put in place,” Obama said.

“The alternative that the prime minister offers is no deal, in which case Iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear program, accelerate its nuclear program, without us having any insight into what they’re doing. And without constraint.”

Actually, Netanyahu called for a better deal: “My friends, for over a year, we’ve been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well, this is a bad deal. It’s a very bad deal. We’re better off without it,” the prime minister said. “Now we’re being told that the only alternative to this bad deal is war. That’s just not true. The alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal. A better deal that doesn’t leave Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure and such a short break-out time. A better deal that keeps the restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in place until Iran’s aggression ends. A better deal that won’t give Iran an easy path to the bomb. A better deal that Israel and its neighbors may not like, but with which we could live, literally.”

Obama acknowledged “it may be that Iran cannot say yes to a good deal,” as negotiations continue with the Islamic State.

“If we’re successful in negotiating, then, in fact, this will be the best deal possible to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Nothing else comes close. Sanctions won’t do it. Even military action would not be as successful as the deal that we have put forward,” he maintained.

“And I think it is very important not to be distracted by the nature of the Iranian regimes’ ambitions when it comes to territory or terrorism.” http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/03/03/obama-reads-transcript-of-netanyahu-speech-declares-nothing-comes-close-to-p51-deal/#ixzz3TQVEG1wP

Basically, Barack Obama is saying that Iran wants to get nuclear weapons and destroy, but that should be overlooked as getting it to make even a bad deal will help delay it from getting nuclear weapons.

Iran has repeatedly declared its intentions to destroy the USA and Israel. And while it will not succeed in those intentions, Iran has the capability of causing significant harm to both nations. While that would not turn out well for Iran, those who do not believe that Iran would not attempt to do such things simply is being naive.

Iran wants to rule the world and wants nuclear weapons. Even US President Barack Obama does not seem to have a lot of confidence in the deal his administration is working on, so it seems that it would have been best to not be quite do dismissive of Benjamin Netanyahu’s warnings (for some details on those, please see etanyahu: Deal will ‘guarantee’ that Iran gets nuclear weapons).

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