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Netanyahu: Proposed Deal Allows Iran to Become a Threshold Nuclear Nation
(CBS News) Norah O'Donnell - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told "Face the Nation" on Sunday: "Secretary Kerry said the right thing when he said that no deal is better than a bad deal. The deal...described to us by American sources...means that Iran maintains its capability to enrich material for nuclear bomb. It also maintains another route, the plutonium heavy water route, to make nuclear bombs. All Iran gives is a minor concession of taking 20%-enriched uranium and bringing it down to a lower enrichment but that they could cover with a few weeks, given the capabilities that they keep for enrichment." "So Iran effectively becomes a threshold nuclear power nation, makes a minor concession and in exchange for that the P5+1, the international community, reverses the direction of sanctions, gives Iran several billion dollars worth in direct assistance, opens up petrochemicals, opens up gold, diamond, the automotive industries and other things. This is a huge change from the pressure that was applied on Iran through the effective sanctions regime, which brought them to the table in the first place." "How many centrifuges are dismantled in this agreement? Not one. Zero. In other words, Iran maintains all capabilities. It built itself up in the face of international decisions and resolutions, it defied them, went right up to very close to the top and now it stays there. It doesn't bring down, dismantle one centrifuge, it continues to have the mountains of material which they can take in to the centrifuge to make atomic bombs." "This is a country that has tens of thousands of people in the street chanting "death to America" the other day. This is a country that is participating as we speak in the mass slaughter of men, women, children, tens of thousands of them in Syria. This is a country that is fomenting terror on five continents. This is a country that pledges to destroy the State of Israel and subvert so many of the other countries." "It's not only my concern that this is a bad deal, there are many, many Arab leaders in the region who are saying, this is a very bad deal for the region and for the world. And you know, when you have the Arabs and Israelis speaking in one voice, it doesn't happen very often; I think it's worth paying attention to us."