More Quotes
“If someone thought that the extraordinary concessions to Iran would lead to a change in its policy, they received a crushing answer over the weekend in Iranian ruler Khamenei’s aggressive and contrary speech. The Iranians aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they will use the hundreds of billions that they will receive under this agreement in order to arm their terror machine and they are clearly saying that they will continue their struggle against the US and its allies, first among them being Israel, of course.
Today Iran is arming terrorist organizations with missiles – tomorrow they will have the ability to arm them and themselves with much deadlier weapons.
The agreement that was signed paves Iran’s way to arm itself with nuclear weapons within a decade, if Iran decides to honour the agreement, and before then if it decides to violate it, as it is usually does.
The alternative to this failed agreement, which we proposed repeatedly, is to the continuation and strengthening of the sanctions on Iran and conditioning the lifting of the restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, and the lifting of the pressure on Iran, only if it changes its policy. As long as the Iranian leadership is encouraging calls of ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’, there is no reason to make any concessions to them.” (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Cabinet meeting, 19/07/2015)
“The strategic foreign policy analysis, the national intelligence information, and America’s allies in the region’s intelligence all predict not only the same outcome of the North Korean nuclear deal but worse … it will wreak havoc in the Middle East which is already living in a disastrous environment, whereby Iran is a major player in the destabilisation of the region” (Prince Bandar bin Sultan, writing in Lebanon’s Daily Star, 16/07/2015).
“The person who spoke the truth about this agreement is the Iranian President, who said Iran achieved all hits goals…We are not obligated by the agreement and will continue to oppose it. There is no coalition and opposition and we must have a united front to ensure our existence.” (Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the Knesset to honour the memory of Likud ideological forebear Ze’ev Jabotinsky, 15/07/15)
“The world is a much more dangerous place today than it was yesterday … The leading international powers have bet our collective future on a deal with the foremost sponsor of international terrorism … They’ve gambled that in ten years’ time, Iran’s terrorist regime will change while removing any incentive for it to do so. In fact, the deal gives Iran every incentive not to change.” (Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking before a security cabinet meeting, 15/07/15)
“Even this past weekend, while Iran continued to receive more and more concessions from the world powers, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani led a hate march through the streets of Tehran as the masses shouted ‘death to America,’ and ‘death to Israel.’ If, even after these unequivocal calls for destruction, the negotiators conceded, it seems that there are some people who are willing to reach an agreement at any price—and there is no way and no desire to avoid this bad agreement.
“In any event, we did not make a commitment to refrain from reaching an agreement or to prevent an agreement, certainly not one that the world powers are willing to sign at any price. We made a commitment to prevent Iran from arming with nuclear weapons—and indeed, if not for our efforts over the course of the years, Iran could have long since armed itself with atom bombs.”
“[Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani is heading a hate march in which U.S. and Israeli flags are being burned and calls for death to America and Israel are being made, and at the same time, concessions are being offered to Iran … Iran is not hiding its intentions to continue with its murderous aggression against those who are now negotiating with it. Maybe the powers are willing to give in to a reality underwritten by Iran, which includes unending calls for the destruction of Israel. But we will not accept that.” (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, 12/07/2015)