Foreign minister calls it the biggest diplomatic victory Iran has known in recent years
Iran’s foreign minister says the nuclear pact is a victory over "the Zionists." Israeli officials are astounded that Obama could agree to the pact with his eyes fully opened. Kerry insists the deal had made the world safer. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz calls the pact a "cataclysmic error of gigantic proportions."
An Obama administration official told ABC News that, unknown to Israel and America’s other allies, U.S. officials handpicked by the president have for months been holding secret meetings with Iranian officials in Oman to pave the way for a nuclear agreement.
IRAN, WEST ‘THWART ZIONIST PLOT’ WITH NUCLEAR DEAL
By Ryan Jones
Israel Today
November 24, 2013
Israel fuming over 'delusional' Iran nuke deal, threatening to review military option
Iran on Sunday hailed the nuclear deal it reached with Western powers as a victory over "the Zionists," while Israel fumed over the details of the agreement, even as US President Barack Obama insisted it would improve the security of the Jewish state.
"All plots hatched by the Zionist regime to stop the nuclear agreement have failed," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said to his nation's media from Geneva.
The deal signed on Sunday is only the first in many proposed steps. It requires Iran to temporarily freeze its nuclear program (while leaving it fully intact) in exchange for a lessening of Western sanctions.
Over the coming six month, Zarif said Iran will give America and its Western allies an opportunity to prove their trustworthiness to the Islamic Republic before moving on to the second step.
Israelis officials seemed incredulous that Obama could enter, eyes fully opened, into such an arrangement.
"What was agreed last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement, it is a historic mistake," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sunday's cabinet meeting. "Today the world has become much more dangerous because the most dangerous regime in the world took a significant step to getting the most dangerous weapon in the world."
"There is no achievement in this agreement," added Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. "This is the biggest diplomatic victory Iran has known in recent years."
"We awoke this morning to a new reality. A reality in which a bad deal was signed with Iran. A very bad deal," Economic Minister Naftali Bennett wrote on his Facebook page. "If a nuclear suitcase blows up five years from now in New York or Madrid, it will be because of the deal that was signed this morning."
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Hell Howie, the same general tactic is what we used with North Korea and that worked out fine (didn't it)??
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