Netanyahu takes fight against Obama’s Iran plan to Congress

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for another round in an increasingly heated battle with the White House over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In a landmark speech to Congress, Netanyahu will seek to mobilise lawmakers to oppose an emerging deal with Tehran which is backed by President Barack Obama. Obama on Monday lashed out at his nemesis, pointing to Netanyahu’s attacks on a previous interim U.S.-Iran deal that paved the way for this week’s ongoing talks in Switzerland.

America and Israel are more than friends. We’re like a family. We’re practically mishpucha. Now, disagreements in the family are always uncomfortable, but we must always remember that we are family.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu considers himself to be a visionary who foresaw the Iranian nuclear threat long ago, and hopes that blocking it from attaining a bomb will be his crowning achievement in government. Netanyahu believes that in the talks with Iran the so-called P5+1 group is verging on striking a deal that will ease international sanctions without the ironclad safeguards the Jewish state says are essential to deny Tehran a nuclear bomb. The U.S. administration says that is just not true.

Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting $50 billion worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true.

U.S. President Barack Obama

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