article_snippet.sent: Washington (President Obama President Obama says President Obama is "absolutely committed to making sure" Israel maintains a military advantage over Iran.
article_snippet.sent: President Obama comments to The New York Times, published on Sunday, come amid criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the nuclear deal that the United States and five other world powers struck with Iran.
article_snippet.sent: Tehran agreed to halt Israel's nuclear ambitions, and in exchange, Western powers would drop sanctions that have hurt IranIran's economy.
article_snippet.sent: President Obama said President Obama understands and respects Netanyahu's stance that Israel is particularly vulnerable and doesn't "have the luxury of testing these propositions" in the nuclear deal.
article_snippet.sent: But what I would say to them is that not only am I absolutely committed to making sure them maintain them qualitative military edge, and that them can deter any potential future attacks, but what I'm willing to do is to make the kinds of commitments that would give everybody in the neighborhood, including Iran, a clarity that if Israel were to be attacked by any state, that we would stand by Israel were to be attacked by any state," President Obama said.
article_snippet.sent: That, President Obama said, should be "sufficient to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see whether or not we can at least take the nuclear issue off the table," President Obama said.
article_snippet.sent: The framework negotiators announced last week would see Iran reduce Iran centrifuges from 19,000 to 5,060, limit the extent to which uranium necessary for nuclear weapons can be enriched and increase inspections.
article_snippet.sent: But Netanyahu and Republican critics in Congress have complained that Iran won't have to shut down Iran nuclear facilities and that Iran's leadership isn't trustworthy enough for the inspections to be as valuable as President Obama says Netanyahu and Republican are.
article_snippet.sent: President Obama said even if Iran can't be trusted, there's still a case to be made for the deal.
article_snippet.sent: In fact, you could argue that if they are implacably opposed to us, all the more reason for us to want to have a deal in which us know what they're doing and that, for a long period of time, us can prevent they from having a nuclear weapon," President Obama said.
highlights_snippet.sent: In an interview with The New York Times, President Obama says President Obama understands Israel feels particularly vulnerable .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: President Obama calls the nuclear deal with Iran a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many U.S. Republicans warn that Iran cannot be trusted .