Netanyahu: Iran ‘given their yellowcake’ and can ‘eat it too’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Wednesday that Iran won enough concessions from international negotiators for it to eventually obtain a nuclear weapon.

{mosads}Netanyahu referred in an interview to previous approaches that would have lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for “rolling back, truly rolling back, their nuclear capability, not for a temporary time, but for forever.”

“They were effectively given the relief of the sanctions, keeping their infrastructure and allowing it to expand within a few years,” Netanyahu said during the interview with Lester Holt on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” referring to the international accord reached early Tuesday.

“The hard-liners in Iran have scored a tremendous victory because they’ve been given their yellowcake and [can] eat it too. They can have it and eat it too,” he said.

The deal reached between Iran, the U.S., France, Britain, China and Russia would roll back oil and banking restrictions in exchange for new limits on Iran’s nuclear program.

While the terms of the deal would reduce the number of Iranian nuclear centrifuges over the next decade and allow for international inspections, it does not completely dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

“In 10 years all the limitations on production of centrifuges will effectively disappear,” Netanyahu, who has long led the push to keep Iran from ever being able to build nuclear arms, said Wednesday.

“They’ll be able to produce a tremendous number of fissile material for an endless number of bombs,” he added. “I think that is very dangerous. A better deal is possible.”