At the White House Wednesday for bilateral talks with President Obama, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rather publicly reminded the president of how seriously Israel takes the threat of a nuclear Iran. President Obama spoke first at a joint press appearance, and said that he and the prime minister would “have an opportunity to discuss the progress that’s being made with respect to dealing with Iran’s nuclear program.” When it was Netanyahu’s turn to speak, he implied that the fate of the current sanctions and thus Iran’s nuclear military aspirations rested on the president’s shoulders [emphasis added]:
At the United Nations on Monday, Netanyahu warned that Iran and its nuclear ambitions pose a much greater threat to the world than the Islamic State (ISIS), whom he referred to as “militant Islamists on pickup trucks.”
