Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a Mimouna celebration. Photo: GPO.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday evening railed against the emerging Iran deal with world powers, saying the inspections of Tehran’s nuclear sites — which the international community has pledged will ensure it does not break out to the bomb — are “not serious.”

He also sounded unconvinced that the US-led world powers would resist Iran’s demand for sanctions to be lifted as soon as the deal goes into force, rather than in phases, depending on Iranian compliance, as the US has pledged. “We see that the sanctions are being lifted, immediately, according to Iran’s demand, and this is without Iran having changed its policy of aggression everywhere,” Netanyahu said, according to an English text released by his office.

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