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Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress.

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In blistering speech, Netanyahu
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Iranian nukes.

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rime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu warned Tuesday dur-
ing in a blunt address to the joint
houses of Congress that a nuclear deal
taking shape between Iran and Western
powers would leave Tehran with "a vast
nuclear infrastructure" that would leave
it dangerously close to the ability to break
out to a nuclear bomb.
Netanyahu told the assembled con-
gressmen and senators that the emerging
deal "will not prevent Iran from develop-
ing nuclear weapons. It will all but guar-
antee that Iran will get nuclear weapons
and a lot of them:'
He explained that while the agreement
did place certain limitations on Iran's
nuclear program, it would not be enough
to prevent a breakout within "about a
year by U.S. assessment, a bit shorter by
Israel's."
United Nations inspections on Iran's
nuclear sites, as stipulated by world pow-
ers, would also be ineffective in prevent-
ing a nuclear-armed Iran, he said.
"Inspectors document violations, they
don't stop them:' he said. "Inspectors
knew when North Korea broke out to
the bomb but that didn't stop [the North
Koreans]"
Netanyahu said that while the world
had given Iran a chance two years ago to
change and moderate with the launch of
negotiations over its nuclear program, the
Iranian regime "is as radical as ever"
Evoking the Jewish holiday of Purim,
which commemorates the Jewish people's
survival of a Persian plot to destroy them,
the prime minister said: "Today the
Jewish people face another attempt by yet
another Persian potentate to destroy it.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei
spews the oldest hatred of anti-Semitism
with new technology. He tweets in English
that Israel must be destroyed7
Netanyahu said he was "deeply
humbled" by the opportunity to speak

for a third time to "the most important
legislative body in the world:' He thanked
Congress for its support of Israel "year
after year, decade after decade:'
He spoke shortly after Secretary of
State John Kerry met for more than two
hours in Switzerland with Iranian Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in hopes
of completing an international frame-
work agreement later this month to curb
Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
The Israeli leader's appeal also came
two weeks before elections in which he
is seeking a new term — and after the
invitation to address Congress extended
by House Speaker John Boehner, a
Republican, triggered a political furor in
the United States. More than four dozen
House and Senate Democrats said in
advance they would not attend the event,
a highly unusual move given historically
close ties between the two allies.
The White House expressed its dis-
pleasure with the appearance by word
and deed, dispatching Vice President Joe
Biden on an overseas trip that meant he
did not fill his customary seat behind the
House rostrum during the speech. Nor did
Netanyahu meet at the White House with
Obama on his trip to the United States.
The prime minister was greeted with a
roaring welcome as he walked down the
same center aisle of the House chamber
that presidents tread before their annual
State of the Union speeches.
He also sought to smooth over any
political unpleasantness, thanking Obama
lavishly for the help he has given Israel
since he became president. In a grace
note, he took a moment to mention
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid,
who is back at work after suffering an eye
injury in an accident at home.
"I know that no matter which side of
the aisle you sit, you stand with Israel; he
said, personally thanking U.S. President
Barack Obama for his support. The
"remarkable alliance" between the U.S.
and Israel "has always been above politics,
and it must always remain about politics:'
he said.

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