Netanyahu: Deal or No Deal, Iran Can't Be Trusted

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Following the lifting of sanctions against Iran over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the issue is still the same.  Iran must not be allowed to get nuclear weapons. 

"The international community must enact severe and aggressive sanctions against every violation," Netanyahu said at the start of his cabinet meeting on Sunday.

Netanyahu fought a losing a battle against the Iranian nuclear agreement for years. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States also opposed the deal. They say it legitimizes Iran as a nuclear threshold state. 

It also allowed the lifting of crippling sanctions against Iran and puts billions of dollars of resources in their hands. 

Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said even though the nuclear deal with Tehran has been implemented, Iran must not be trusted.

"The whole international community will have to be extremely watchful and extremely vigilant because we cannot trust Iran to fully implement the agreement and even if they do implement the agreement one has to remember that it is limited in time," Nahshon told CBN News. "It is limited to 10 or 15 years."

Nahshon noted Iran's ambitions go beyond its nuclear pursuit.

"One cannot ignore the fact that Iran is not only engaged in nuclear activities, it is also engaged in subversive activities all over the Middle East," he said. 

"You can see the Iranian fingerprint in any and every activity of Hezbollah, in Syria, in Yemen, in other places in the region. There is a huge enterprise of destabilization, which is orchestrated by Tehran," he added.

President Obama hailed the implementation day of the deal as a victory. He also, included the release of five Americans from Iranian prison and the speedy release of U.S. sailors captured in Iranian waters last week as part of his diplomatic triumph.

Nachshon says Israel has had experience with its citizens being captured by terrorists.

"On a humanitarian and personal level or course we are all very happy or their release," he said. "People taken hostage by terrorists should be released but does it make the terrorists less terrorists? The answer is no."