Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will send a team led by his national security adviser to Washington for talks with the Obama administration on a permanent agreement with Iran.
A day after denouncing the deal in Geneva as a "historic mistake", Mr Netanyahu said he had held talks with President Barack Obama on Sunday night. Mr Obama is said to have reaffirmed "their shared goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
He also insisted that his vocal criticisms had helped improve the terms of the original proposed agreement that came close to being signed two weeks ago.
"It is true that the international pressure which we applied was partly successful and has led to a better result than what was originally planned but this is still a bad deal," he told members of his Likud party in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. "It reduces the pressure on Iran without receiving anything tangible in return and the Iranians who laughed all the way to the bank are themselves saying that this deal has saved them."
He said a final agreement must lead to "one result: The dismantling of Iran's military nuclear capability." » | Robert Tait, Jerusalem and agencies | Monday, November 25, 2013
