Washington – U.S. Official: Netanyahu ‘Offered No Concrete Action Plan’ On Iran

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2015.  REUTERS/Joshua RobertsWashington – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to offer an alternative in his speech to the U.S. Congress on the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, a senior U.S. administration official said on Tuesday.

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    “Simply demanding that Iran completely capitulate is not a plan, nor would any country support us in that position. The prime minister offered no concrete action plan,” the official said, speaking on background.

    Netanyahu warned Congress against accepting a deal with Iran that President Barack Obama and his administration are deeply invested in negotiating, arguing that the deal would leave Iran with a “breakout time” of a year, which he said was too short.

    The senior U.S. official said that the administration was pursuing a deal that “verifiably prevents” Iran from obtaining a weapon, and increases the breakout time “substantially” to a year from the current estimate of two to three months.

    “These negotiations are not an opening to a rapprochement with Iran,” the official said.

    The official said that the proposed length of the deal – a decade or longer – would be “far longer than any other option.”

    “Military action would set it back by a fraction of that time, at which point Iran would begin to rebuild its program and try to break out for a weapon,” the official said.

    The official said Netanyahu contradicted himself by arguing that the Iranian government is both “powerful and unchanging” and “weak and vulnerable” and insisting that it needed to change as a condition for a nuclear deal.

    “The logic of the prime minister’s speech is regime change, not a nuclear speech,” the official said.


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    jack25
    jack25
    9 years ago

    Well is right, but the current deal is dangerous.

    Realistic
    Realistic
    9 years ago

    He offered a path to war.

    At the US expense, for Israel’s benefit.

    Realistic
    Realistic
    9 years ago

    It was funny like an alliance and partners, when in reality it’s more like a donor/receiver father/son like relationship.

    And sometimes the son throws tantrums, and the father must bite it’s nail, and appease him.

    PrettyBoyFloyd
    PrettyBoyFloyd
    9 years ago

    Idiotic US official, the US government asked him not to and he obliges, so they’re attacking him for not laying out any war plans? How much more moronic can this idiotic administration get? He came here to warn the world and the United States people and it’s Congress, about the dangers of making any agreements with this satanic regime. And that’s exactly what he did.

    krauszefraim
    krauszefraim
    9 years ago

    Just on comment on Obama and the administration, ” Liar Liar pants on Fire.” They’re a bunch of imbeciles.

    9 years ago

    Numbers two and three here (probably one and the same) are/is an Obama troll.

    bjunger
    bjunger
    9 years ago

    Nonsense! Netanyahu said that the sanctions should continue and be strengthened. Iran is almost bankrupt and that is the only reason they are at the negotiating table. A bad deal would only embolden them especially if the sanctions were removed.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    9 years ago

    Its so sad that this is their rebuttal. I guess they couldn’t come up with anything either.