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Source: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/11/netanyahu-slams-us-offer-on-iran-nukes-177024.html
Netanyahu Slams U.S. Offer on Iran Nukes
(Politico) Josh Gerstein - During a meeting in Jerusalem Thursday with a visiting delegation of U.S. lawmakers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the offer is a "grievous historic error" that could be "the deal of the century for Iran." "Iran is essentially giving nothing and it's getting all the air taken out - the air begins to be taken out of the pressure cooker that it took years to build in the sanctions regime. What we're having today is a situation that Iran is giving up, at best, a few days of enrichment time, but the whole international regime's sanctions policy has the air taken out of it." White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed Thursday that the U.S. is proposing a limited and "easily reversible" easing of some economic sanctions, if Iran agrees to freeze its nuclear efforts. "There is no daylight between Israel and the United States, between the president and the prime minister, when it comes to the objective of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," Carney said.