Guess Obama won’t be getting that “breather” he was asking Netanyahu for.

Via Times of Israel:

Nuclear negotiations that led to an interim deal with Iran last week were more political theater than substance, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Rome on Monday, urging Western powers not to ease economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

At a press conference in the Italian capital, the prime minister again expressed strong opposition to the accord, urging European powers to demand a substantial rollback from Iran before agreeing to ease an effective sanctions regime. He warned that although Tehran, led by President Hassan Rouhani, presented a smiling face to the West, it continued to “butcher people in Syria, to promote terrorism” and to support Hezbollah and Hamas.

Even though Iran has not even begun to implement the agreement, there appears to be a general relaxation of sanctions and a rush to accommodate Iran and to make it legitimate, as if Iran has changed anything of its actual policies except to smile, to speak English — on occasion — and to make Powerpoint presentations,” Netanyahu remarked. “What a revolution!”

The prime minister warned that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons capabilities, it will be “a pivot of history” that will not only upset progress all over the Middle East, but also might endanger Europe and the world at large.

“This must be stopped,” Netanyahu asserted, adding that an end to sanctions against Iran would “mark the end of the possibility of reaching a peaceful resolution to the question of ending Iran’s military nuclear program.”