United States President Barack Obama said that even Israel, which had opposed the nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran more than any other country, recognized that the Iranians were keeping the accord. President Obama said at a press conference at the Pentagon that the agreement was working in every respect. He said that the Israeli intelligence community also believed that the Iranians did not currently have a short timetable to break through to a nuclear weapon: “It’s now been well over a year since the agreement with Iran to stop its nuclear program was signed, and by all accounts it has worked exactly the way we said it was going to work. You’ll recall that there were all these horror stories about how Iran was going to cheat, and this wasn’t going to work, and Iran was going to get a hundred fifty billion dollars to finance terrorism and all these kinds of scenarios and none of them have come to pass. It’s not just the assessment of our intelligence community it’s the assessment of the Israeli military and intelligence community, the country that was most opposed to this deal that acknowledges this has been a game changer and that Iran has abided by the deal and that they no longer have the sort of short-term breakout capacity that would allow them to develop nuclear weapons,” stated Obama.The Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem refused to immediately comment on the remarks by the American head of state, due to the sensitivity of the matter.
