Obama team: ‘Nothing new’ in Netanyahu speech

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed “nothing new” in his dramatic briefing on “Iran’s secret nuclear files,” according to foreign policy advisers from former President Barack Obama’s administration.

“For those who have followed the Iranian nuclear file, there is nothing new in [Netanyahu’s] presentation,” Robert Malley, a former National Security Council senior director who helped negotiate the Iran deal, tweeted Monday. “All it does is vindicate need for the nuclear deal.”

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