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Itongadol.- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday vowed that the nuclear agreementstruck between the major world powers and Iran “is not the last word.”
Speaking before the Knesset to honor the memory of the Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the premier said that it was Israel’s vocal opposition to the Iran nuclear program that delayed Tehran’s attainment of the bomb.
“We brought the Iranian issue to the attention of world public opinion,” Netanyahu said. “If it wasn’t for us, there would not have been a discussion about it.”
“If it weren’t for Israel’s efforts, Iran would’ve gained possession of a nuclear weapon a long time ago,” the prime minister said.
“We are not bound by this agreement and we will continue to oppose it,” Netanyahu said. “This agreement is bad on all counts. Whoever says that the deal needs to be evaluated in the future needs to take into account the fact that it will be examined in the immediate future.”
“When we read the agreement, the picture becomes even bleaker because we discover more absurd things in it,” the premier said.
Netanyahu criticized the Western powers for their “willingness to accept tyrannical regimes,” a theme that dovetailed with a remembrance session in honor of Jabotinsky.
In Zionist lore, Jabotinsky is credited with foreseeing the danger posed to European Jewry by the rise of Nazism.
“This is different than 1938 because back then, there was no precedent,” the prime minister said. “Now there is, and then we didn\’t have a country. Now we do.”