Bibi angered Obama, Congress by his March speech: Analyst
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered both the Obama administration and US lawmakers by the speech he gave at Congress on March 3, says political analyst Stephen Lendman.
Netanyahu delivered an anti-Iran speech at Congress to persuade American lawmakers to put more pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
The Israeli prime minister, who had been invited by US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner hours after President Barack Obama threatened to veto any sanctions legislation against Iran, denounced the then talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia, and Germany, which had entered a sensitive final stage.
Despite efforts by Netanyahu, the AIPAC and other opponents to sabotage the Iran talks, Tehran and the P5+1 group finalized the text of a nuclear agreement dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Austrian capital Vienna on July 14.
Lendman, who made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday, said that Netanyahu “made a fool of himself doing it, he angered the White House, he angered I think even the people in Congress.”
The Israeli premier just “wanted to express opposition” to the Iran talks, Lendman added.
Referring to Netanyahu, he said that “you don’t go into the home of the other nation’s president and bash that president, it simply is not the political thing to do.”
“So he certainly didn’t help himself by the speech he gave,” he noted.
However, Lendman said that “Israel and the AIPAC will put extensive pressure on everybody in Congress to oppose the deal.”
The American author went on to say that his greatest concern is that “whether America will live up to the deal it signs onto,” noting that “I’m very dubious about that, America’s history of deal making shows it fragrantly breaches terms that it agreed.”
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