Israeli PM to send team to discuss Iran deal in Washington

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Israeli PM to send team to discuss Iran deal in Washington

(Xinhua) 08:12, November 26, 2013

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JERUSALEM, Nov. 25 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that a team on his behalf will go to the United States and discuss prospects for the future final status agreement with Iran, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.

Netanyahu, who made the statement during his Likud Party's weekly faction meeting at the Knesset (parliament), talked with U. S. President Barack Obama last night about the agreement signed in Geneva on Saturday.

According to reports in the Israeli media, Obama told Netanyahu that the P5+1 countries would use the next couple of months to find a "peaceful and lasting" solution to the Iranian nuclear plan.

According to the prime minister, he agreed to a proposal by Obama to send the delegation to the U.S., which will be headed by the National Security Advisor, Yossi Cohen.

"I would have loved to join the voices in the world praising the Geneva agreement," Netanyahu said at the meeting.

"It's true that the pressure we put brought partial results and a better outcome than we had participated, but it's still a bad deal," the prime minister added.

Netanyahu also said that the team to visit the United States will discuss the future final agreement with Iran with its American counterparts.

"This (final) agreement has to bring to one result: the dismantling of Iran's military nuclear capabilities," he added, saying he will do whatever he has to to prevent that from happening.

Netanyahu on Sunday said that the Iranian nuclear deal was a " historic mistake" and said Israel is not bound to it.

According to the reported details of the agreement reached on Saturday in Geneva, Iran will halt uranium enrichment to levels of 20 percent, in exchange for a partial ease of the sanctions.

（Editor：LiangJun、Zhang Qian）