PM Netanyahu Meets with Bipartisan US Senate Leadership
(Communicated by the Regional Cooperation Ministry)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Tuesday, 3 March 2015), met with
the bipartisan leadership of the US Senate, pursuant to an invitation from
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Harry Reid (D-NV). Also attending the meeting
were John Barrasso (R-WY), John Thune (R-SD), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), John
McCain (R-AZ), Al Franken (D-MN), John Cornyn (R-TX), Charles Schumer
(D-NY), Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Corker (D-TN).

At the start of the meeting Prime Minister Netanyahu said:

"I do want to thank the leadership of the Senate, Republicans and Democrats,
both sides of the aisle, for inviting me here, giving me an opportunity to
state Israel's concern about an issue that could be the most important issue
of our times. I believe it is. I was very moved by the attention and the
responses to the speech from both sides of the aisle, and it's very clear to
me and it was clear in that hall to anyone who was there that the support
for Israel is strongly bipartisan, that there is a very broad support of the
American people and its representative for the Jewish state and I'm very,
very grateful for that.

Thank you, thank you."

Prime Minister Netanyahu told the senators that the two new items in his
address to Congress were:

#1. The need to enact more vigorous restrictions in the agreement being
formulated and thus lengthen the time it will take for Iran to break through
to nuclear weapons.
#2. In the agreement being formulated these restrictions must not be lifted
automatically within a decade but only after Iran will have fulfilled three
conditions: Stopping its support for global terrorism, stopping its
aggression against its neighbors and stopping to threaten Israel's
annihilation.