Likening Iran to the IS, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today asked the US Congress to take a harder line against Tehran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons and stop its march of conquest, subjugation and terror.
Netanyahu warned that if the US-Iran nuclear deal is accepted "that deal will not prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons," but "it will guarantee" Iran gets the bomb.
"For over a year, we've been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well, this is a bad deal. It's a very bad deal. We're better off without it," Netanyahu said in his address to the US Congress which was attended by lawmakers from both the Republican and the Democratic parties.
"This deal has two major concessions: one, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade. That's why this deal is so bad. It doesn't block Iran's path to the bomb; it paves Iran's path to the bomb," Netanyahu said as he lashed out at the Obama Administration's effort to enter into a deal with Iran on the latter's nuclear weapons policy.
"This deal won't be a farewell to arms. It would be a farewell to arms control. And the Middle East would soon be crisscrossed by nuclear tripwires. A region where small skirmishes can trigger big wars would turn into a nuclear tinderbox," he said.
"We must all stand together to stop Iran's march of conquest, subjugation and terror," he said.
Netanyahu said Iran is playing a "deadly 'Game of Thrones' and warned that the country's regime "poses a great threat not only to Israel but also to the peace of the entire world."
Iran and the Islamic State are "competing for the crown of militant Islam," Netanyahu said.
"Iran's regime is as radical as ever, its cries of 'Death to America', that same America that it calls the 'Great Satan', as loud as ever."
"Now, this shouldn't be surprising, because the ideology of Iran's revolutionary regime is deeply rooted in militant Islam, and that's why this regime will always be an enemy of America," said the Israeli Prime Minister.
"Don't be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn't turn Iran into a friend of America. Iran and ISIS are competing for the crown of militant Islam. One calls itself the Islamic Republic. The other calls itself the Islamic State. Both want to impose a militant Islamic empire first on the region and then on the entire world. They just disagree among themselves who will be the ruler of that empire," he said.
