DHAKA: President Barack Obama is pushing to seal the Iran nuclear deal, accusing opponents of ‘selling a fantasy’.

In a speech at a Washington DC university he said the agreement is publicly supported by every country in the world, except for Israel.

He described a forthcoming congressional vote on lifting sanctions as either a vote for war or for peace.

Members of Congress have come under intense pressure from Israeli interest groups to reject the deal.

Obama described it as the ‘strongest non-proliferation agreement ever negotiated’.

He equated those who oppose the deal with the supporters of the American invasion of Iraq.

‘The same mindset, in many cases offered by the same people - who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong - led to a war that did more to strengthen Iran, more to isolate the United States, than anything we have done before or since.’

In a conference call arranged by a Jewish organization on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected the notion that a vote against the deal is a vote for war, reports the BBC.

Instead, a vote for the deal would make war more likely, Netanyahu argued.

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