Barack doesn’t like being told he’s wrong.

CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Barack Obama has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public claim that the U.S. and other nations gave Iran a “freebie” by holding nuclear talks with the regime in Istanbul this weekend and agreeing to another session in Baghdad in May without any agreement by the Iranians to halt their nuclear enrichment.

“We’re not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process, but so far at least, we haven’t given away anything,” Obama said during a news conference after an international summit in Colombia. “The notion that somehow we’ve given something away or a freebie would indicate that Iran has gotten something. In fact, they’ve got some of the toughest sanctions they’re going to be facing.”

After a break for more than a year and a half, nuclear talks between Iran and six other key countries got unde rway on Friday and Saturday in Turkey.

During a meeting in Jerusalem with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Netanyahu seemed troubled that the negotiators had agreed to another session in May without any concessions from Iran.

“My initial impression is that Iran has been given a freebie,” Netanyahu said Sunday. “It’s got five weeks to continue enrichment without any limitation, any inhibition,” he said.