The Jerusalem Post reports: WASHINGTON – One year on since world powers signed a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, the deal is working– and Israel knows it, US President Barack Obama said on Thursday.
Pushing back against criticism of a legal settlement the US reached with Iran in January– a report this week in the Wall Street Journal suggested that a deal to deliver cash toward that settlement coincided conspicuously with Tehran’s release of four American hostages– Obama said the real story was that improved relations with Iran were proving fruitful, and that opponents of the deal should own up to it.
The military and intelligence communities in Israel– “the country that was most opposed to the deal,” Obama said– had come to the conclusion that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was a “game-changer” that had successfully put a lid on Iran’s nuclear program and expanded the time it would require for Tehran to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon.
Opponents of the deal from last year should be challenged by reporters to say, “you know what, we were wrong,” Obama added, criticizing “the manufacturing of outrage” over stories tangential to the deal.
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