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Israel is not buying U.S. President Barack Obama’s assertion that the possibility of reaching a final nuclear deal with Iran is “less than 50 percent.”

A senior official in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said on July 9 that Israel believes Iran and P5+1 powers will soon sign an agreement, leading the way for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.

“The nearly complete collapse of the P5+1 ‘s positions in the interim agreement, in the Lausanne framework and in the current talks almost guarantees that the sides will reach a deal and the world will face a nuclear armed terrorist state,” the official said.

The official added that Obama’s concessions all but allow Iran to “receive a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars to fund its aggression and terror.”

The official said the Israelis were “unimpressed” when they heard Obama told a group of senators on July 7 that the chances of reaching a deal were “less than 50 percent.”

The P5+1 negotiators have made so many concessions to Iran, one Israeli official said, that even if they get Teheran to back down on any remaining sticking points in the deal, it will be meaningless since a plethora of red lines have already been crossed.

Among those red lines, the official said, were demands that Iran allow inspections everywhere (including military sites), at anytime, and that lifting sanctions would be based on Iran fulfilling its commitments under the deal.

The Israelis would not be surprised if one final red line was crossed, Teheran’s demand that a UN embargo on conventional weapons be lifted. That has been seen as one of the final points of contention in the deal.

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