Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged US lawmakers to combat Iranian aggression by rejecting the nuclear deal and dismissed talk of military compensation to Israel as futile and ineffective.

The deal “endangers our survival,” Netanyahu told ABC’s “This Week” program, adding that Western intelligence agencies aren’t foolproof and may fail to discern if Tehran violates the deal and clandestinely breaks out to the bomb.

“The deal endangers our security, our survival even, and the security of the Middle East and the world,” Netanyahu said, during a US media blitz in the wake of the deal.

Some Israeli and US officials have floated the idea of US military compensation to Israel in the wake of the deal — a suggestion Netanyahu immediately dismissed.

“Everybody talks about compensating Israel. If this deal is supposed to make Israel and its Arab neighbors safer, why should we need to be compensated with anything? And how can you compensate my country against a terrorist regime that is sworn to our destruction and going to get a path to nuclear bombs?” Netanyahu asked.

Echoing Netanyahu’s statement, an Israeli official told AP Sunday that Jerusalem is not prepared to discuss American compensation for the Iran deal, saying that would imply acceptance of the accord.  The Times of Israel