Obama Admin: Yes, We Lied to Israel About Iran

"Ben Rhodes, a deputy National Security Adviser to US President Barack Obama, revealed in a New York Times interview ... what pretty much everyone already knew - the Obama White House lied to win approval for its Iran nuclear deal.

Getting a deal on the books was more important than the consequences of doing so, it was more important than the reality of an aggressive and nuclear-armed Iran. That's the gist of what Rhodes told the Times.

'We can do things that challenge the conventional thinking that, you know, 'AIPAC doesn't like this,' or 'the Israeli government doesn't like this,' or 'the gulf countries don't like it,' Rhodes said...

Where Obama explicitly lied to allies and Americans was in describing the nuclear deal as having been struck with a 'moderate' Iranian regime that had finally displaced a far more hard-line government in Tehran.

'The idea that there was a new reality in Iran was politically useful to the Obama administration,' read the Times article.

Had Obama been honest about the fact that the foundation for his deal had already been laid with the former hard-line Iranian government, and that the new 'moderate"'regime wasn't really all that moderate, a lot more people would have taken the Israeli view of the nuclear agreement. ..."