Obama: Netanyahu offered no alternative to talks with Iran – Virtual Poland

Barack Obama declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who spoke in Congress, warning against the threat from Iran, did not offer any “realistic alternative” to negotiations on. Iran’s nuclear program.
 

The US president said he read the record and that Netanyahu’s speech in a speech that “there was nothing new.” He added that the Israeli prime minister gave almost the same speech when he signed an interim agreement with Iran. Also emphasized that the result of this interim agreement was freezing and the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear program. According to Obama’s Netanyahu alternative to talks with Iran comes down to the fact that there was no agreement. The President said that the result would be to redouble efforts by Iran to build a nuclear bomb.

Netanyahu told the US Congress that he felt obliged to speak about Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, because the weapons could threaten Israel’s existence. He argued that negotiated by the United States and other powers agreement with Tehran will not block the entry of Iran in possession of nuclear weapons. He warned that “the Iranian regime is a radical as ever” and “a huge threat not only to Israel, but for the peace of the whole world.”
 

Invitation to Congress that Netanyahu received from conflicting with Obama Republican in the White House caused consternation. There was told that it is a violation of the invitation protocol, and the president did not meet with Israeli Prime Minister during his visit to Washington.
 

Obama is a supporter of the international community’s agreement with Tehran on the Iranian nuclear program. Negotiations on Iran leads Group 5 + 1 – the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Israel fears that agreement. According to Netanyahu just “it will increase the appetite” of Iran to further aggression. – This is a very bad agreement and we will be better without him – he argued.
 

The new deadline for a final agreement with Iran on its nuclear program limitations expires on June 30, but negotiators hope to reach agreement on the main points of the end of March.
 

The six powers agreement with Iran to replace the interim agreement concluded November 24, 2013 in Geneva. It provided for the freezing of certain parts of the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for a partial lifting of international sanctions.