How Bibi’s Speech Plays in Tehran

March 7th, 2015 | http://www.lobelog.com/how-bibis-speech-plays-in-tehran/#more-28304

by Eldar Mamedov
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress, he insisted that Iran is much more desperate than the US to get a nuclear deal. Therefore, if more pressure is applied on Iran to get what Netanyahu calls a “better deal”—no uranium enrichment at all— Iranians will inevitably cave. The prime minister dismissed the possibility that Iran might instead walk away from the table with the crude Orientalist cliché of Iran’s bargaining in the Persian bazaar.http://www.lobelog.com/how-bibis-speech-plays-in-tehran/#more-28304