Netanyahu blasts the Iran nuclear deal: 'This is a bad mistake of historic proportions'

Netanyahu calls the deal &#039;a historic mistake.&#039;

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published 14 July 2015

Before the details of the historic deal with Iran had even been made public, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on the offensive. "This is a bad mistake of historic proportions," he said in Jerusalem on Monday, calling the agreement "a sure path to nuclear weapons." Netanyahu has been against the deal from the beginning, condemning it as "Iran's path to the bomb" in a March speech to Congress that the Obama administration called "destructive." "Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world," he said on Monday. Read more at NBC News.