US Energy Secretary Moniz Admits:

Iran Nuclear Deal Will Increase Terror.

Despite US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s recent appeal to Israelis to support the Iran nuclear deal, he now concedes that Washington expects a rise in terror as a result of the agreement.

Appearing last Thursday in a webcast sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz acknowledged that the Iran nuclear deal will increase global terrorism.

As explained by Jonathan Tobin of Commentary magazine,

“Moniz’s admission provides critics of the nuclear deal with a startling admission that backs up their claims that the massive influx of cash into the ayatollahs’ coffers will enable it to increase their support of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists who are preparing for a war [against] the nation Iran has targeted for elimination: Israel.”

Most importantly, says Tobin,

“it debunks the notion that Iran is moderating and won’t take advantage of the pact to undermine the interests of the US and its allies.”

Moniz, speaking to visiting Israeli journalists early last week as part of the Obama administration’s attempt to gain support for the deal, claimed that the deal would not threaten Israel’s existence.

“If I were Israeli, I would support the nuclear deal,”

Moniz stated.

“If I were American, I would oppose the agreement,”

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, who was entrusted with the Iran portfolio, asserted the following day.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned of the
dangers inherent in the deal.

“It is a deal that leaves Iran in possession of the capability to arm itself with nuclear weapons, that fills its coffers with a lot of money and that not only enables it to continue its terrorism and aggression in the Middle East and around the world, but does not even demand that it stop doing so,”

he stated in April in an address to the Police Academy. Immediately after the signing of the framework agreement on March 31, Israel’s Channel 2 already reported an uptick in weapons shipments from Iran to Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as attempts to arm Hamas activists in Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu Warns Bad Nuclear Deal Will Help Finance Iran’s Global Terror Network

Israeli leaders are deeply worried that the agreement with Iran will encourage and assist the Islamic Republic in expanding and financing terror in the Middle East and around the world.

  

Israel responded with anger and concern to the Kremlin’s announcement on Monday that Russia has lifted its ban on the delivery of the sophisticated S-300 air defense missile system to Iran.

Israeli officials drew a direct line between Russia’s controversial decision and the framework nuclear deal agreed upon between Iran and the P5+1 powers, which was supposed to lead to the lifting of the crippling economic sanctions on Iran’s economy.

“It is a bad deal, a very bad deal,”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reiterated on Monday during the dedication ceremony for the national police academy. “It is a deal that leaves Iran in possession of the capability to arm itself with nuclear weapons, that fills its coffers with a lot of money and that not only enables it to continue its terrorism and aggression in the Middle East and around the world, but does not even demand that it stop doing so.”

Netanyahu said the negotiations and framework agreement are emboldening the Islamic Republic to proceed with its regional aggression and expansionism.

“Iran draws encouragement from the concessions that it is receiving from the major powers. The message that Iran is receiving from this is that it is not being called upon to halt its aggression, that it can continue and even increase this aggression, and this is exactly what it is doing. It has been doing so in recent months, in recent weeks and in recent days; it is doing so throughout the Middle East, from Iraq to Yemen. It is doing so in Lebanon and on the border with the Golan Heights. It is grasping the Middle East with arms of terror and blood.”

Iran is receiving international legitimacy to continue its belligerent actions, and when the sanctions are lifted it will receive billions of dollars to finance its war and terrorism machines, Netanyahu warned.

“Before our very eyes an absurd reality is taking shape in which the key to our fate and the future of the Middle East is liable to be delivered into the hands of the fanatical Iranian regime. An agreement full of holes with Iran will not ensure regional stability; a vigorous and resolute policy that prevents it from arming itself with nuclear weapons and compels it to halt its takeover of other nations would.”

Israel’s Intelligence Minister: Damage Already Done

Intelligence Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz added that regardless of the final outcome of an agreement and its effect on Iran’s nuclear program, the damage has already been done.

“Even as Iran disavows article after article in the framework agreement that was announced last week, the international community is beginning to ease restrictions on it. This is the direct result of the legitimacy that Iran is receiving from the nuclear deal being made with it. This also proves that the economic momentum in Iran that will come in the wake of the lifting of the sanctions will be exploited for armaments and not used for the welfare of the Iranian people,”

Steinitz said on Monday.

“Instead of demanding that Iran desist from the terrorist activity that it is carrying out in the Middle East and throughout the world, it is being allowed to arm itself with advanced weapons that will only increase its aggression,”

Steinitz charged.

If Iran does in fact obtain the surface-to-air missiles, an aerial attack on Iran by the US or Israel will become a much more complex and dangerous task.

The S-300 is one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world, designed to intercept aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.