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JERUSALEM Israeli leaders denounced the interim Iranian nuclear pact signed by the United States and five world powers as a historic mistake that does little to reverse Irans nuclear ambitions and instead makes the world a more dangerous place. Israeli officials stressed that they would spend the next six months the time frame for the interim agreement seeking to push their friends and especially the White House to reach a deal with Iran that not only curbs Irans nuclear ambitions but also dismantles its program. Officials here say that means a final comprehensive deal that would require Iran to dismantle its centrifuges, remove its enriched uranium and decommission its heavy water reactor in Arak, among other things, in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed Sunday that Israel was not a party to the talks that ended with a deal in Geneva early Sunday morning and therefore was not bound by the agreement that provides for the temporary, limited lifting of economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran halting or scaling back

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exchange for Iran halting or scaling back parts of its nuclear program. What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement, but a historic mistake, said Netanyahu in remarks before his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday morning.

As dispute over right to enrich continues, the Obama administration also faces skeptics in Congress.

Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon in the world, the prime minister said. Netanyahu repeated a reference to his own red line by stating, Israel will not allow Iran to develop a military nuclear capability. President Obama plans to speak with Netanyahu on Sunday to discuss the agreement, according to a senior administration official. Iran says that its nuclear program is peaceful, that it has a right to enrich uranium, as other nations do, and that its nuclear projects are designed only for energy production and medical research, though many in the international community say otherwise. While Iran has put in place elements of a military program, U.S. officials say Iran has not made the decision to move ahead with a nuclear weapon. If Iran does reach a critical point where it could decide to quickly sprint forward with the construction of a nuclear device, Israeli leaders in the past have warned they could be forced to strike Iran, alone if necessary. The last-second amendments put into the agreement are far from satisfactory, Israel intelligence minister Y uval Steinitz said. The current deal, like the 2007 failed deal with North Korea, is more likely to bring Iran closer to having a bomb. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the deal brings us to a nuclear arms race. The world has to understand that this is the biggest diplomatic victory Iran has had in recent years, Lieberman said. There's no doubt the agreement recognizes Irans right to enrich uranium. The White House described the interim deal as the first meaningful limits that Iran has accepted on its nuclear program in close to a decade and said that these first concessions by Iran to halt all uranium enrichment above 5 percent, not to install or use additional centrifuges, not to commission its plutonium reactor are coupled with increased transparency and intrusive monitoring of its facilities by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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