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1st LD: Israeli PM calls for rejection of bad nuke deal with Iran

Xinhua, March 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for rejection of a bad nuclear deal with Iran, insisting such an accord would allow the Islamic republic to develop nuclear bombs.

"We are better off" without a bad deal with Iran, the hawkish Israeli leader told a joint session of U.S. Congress, in a move that has further strained his often tense relationship with the Obama administration.

He claimed that a final negotiated deal will make "major concessions" to Iran by leaving it with "a vast nuclear infrastructure" and providing it with "a short break-out time to the bomb," as well as by lifting all the restrictions on its nuclear program in about a decade. Endite