Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Iran the “Islamic State of Iran” on Tuesday as he reiterated his opposition to an impending nuclear deal with Iran.
“The world is properly concerned and aghast at the violence and savagery of ISIS,” the prime minister said. “No one would dream of allowing the Islamic State of ISIS to have nuclear weapons. Why would anyone consider giving the Islamic State of Iran, which is a lot more powerful than ISIS and acts with much greater power than ISIS to have additional power of nuclear weapons?”
Netanyahu called Iran the world’s “greatest sponsor of terrorism.”
After Netanyahu’s comments, which came ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, his Twitter account shared a cartoon video describing how dangerous the Islamic State would be if it were creating nuclear weapons.
WATCH AND RETWEET: The Islamic State of Iran – like ISIS. Just much bigger.https://t.co/1b3YCsEyxy
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) June 30, 2015
Netanyahu has been critical of a nuclear deal with Iran for months. The U.S. and five other world powers are in the final stages of completing a nuclear agreement with Iran, but when Netanyahu spoke to Congress in March, he warned that there’s no reason to trust that Iran will live up to any promise to curb its nuclear program.
Netanyahu warned then that any agreement that doesn’t totally shut down Iran’s nuclear capacity “paves Iran’s way to the bomb.”
“We believe that it is a fundamental mistake to enable such a terrorist regime to get to nuclear weapons, which is what the proposed agreement will give them,” Netanyahu said Tuesday. “It will give them a definite pathway to nuclear bombs -– not a bomb, but nuclear bombs.”
