Iran deal will foster and fund terrorism, Benjamin Netanyahu tells Jewish Agency meeting
The deal over Iran’s nuclear program currently taking shape in negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the West is a “historic mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Diaspora leaders on Monday during an appeal for world Jewry to raise its voice in protest.
Speaking to the heads of national communities as well as the various religious denominations at the Jewish Agency’s thrice yearly board of governors meeting in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said Iran, which he termed “the most aggressive power in the world,” will step up its arming of terrorist groups as soon as the deal is signed and Tehran receives a “cash jackpot of $150 billion” in unfrozen assets.
“What do you think will happen with that money?” which is almost half of the country’s GDP, Netanyahu asked. “Will it go to courses and classes on coexistence with Israel and harmony among peoples or do you think it will go to arm the revolution? “The consequences of the Iran deal are not merely a nonconventional threat that will be hanging over our heads, it’s the immediate conventional threat” against Israel, Yemen and other regional countries, as well as more terrorism worldwide, he asserted.