The White House appeared to mock Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on social media Wednesday, employing a cartoon bomb similar to an illustration used by Israel’s leader to warn against a nuclear Iran.
The image of the bomb, complete with a red line near the top, is virtually identical to that used by Netanyahu during a 2012 United Nations speech on the dangers of Tehran acquiring such a weapon.
“At this late hour there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs,” Netanyahu said in his address at the time. “And that is by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.”
Relations between President Obama and Netanyahu are at an all-time low after the Israeli leader’s re-election last month. The White House has accused Netanyahu of doing everything possible to sabotage the Iran talks.
The White House’s online pitch says that the deal Obama wants to finalize by the end of June would halt Iran’s production of highly enriched uranium, cap the country’s low-enriched uranium and slash centrifuges by two-thirds.
What the White House doesn’t mention is that many of those restrictions would expire after a decade — and Obama has admitted that Iran would have the capability to build a bomb in a short amount of time following the nuclear freeze.
Still, the White House argues that a lack of a deal with Iran would ease the nation’s path to a bomb.
