PM Binyamin Netanyahu compared the arguments being made for accepting the nuclear deal with Iran to those made when the USA negotiated a nuclear deal with North Korea in 1994 – and noted that in the end, North Korea got the bomb. “They gave the same arguments about North Korea – it'll make them peaceful, it'll make them moderate, it'll make them abandon their program – and the opposite has happened,” Netanyahu said. The prime minister also pointed out that Iran is a great deal more dangerous than North Korea. "It is a militant Islamic power bent on regional and world domination.” In the interview, Netanyahu refused to say that he trusts President Barack Obama, despite being asked twice. The deal, he said, “doesn't roll back Iran's nuclear program. Thousands of centrifuges will keep spinning and enriching uranium.” Iran will have sanctions lifted “pretty much up front,” he added, and the money it will gain will be used “to pump up its military and terror machine. That's a bad deal.

If a country that vows to annihilate us and is working every day with conventional means and unconventional means to achieve that end, if that country has a deal that paves its way to nuclear weapons, many nuclear weapons, it endangers our survival," the prime minister said. "I'll tell you what else will happen," he added. "It will also spark an arms race with the Sunni states," a reference to Egypt and the Gulf monarchies. (Israel National News)