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In a preview of his address Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans on giving to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, on the threat posed by Iran. Netanyahu stated he has “a moral obligation to speak out” against Iran’s threats to destroy Israel.

Bloomberg News reported that the speech he will give to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday isn’t intended “to show any disrespect to President Obama or the esteemed office that he holds,” Netanyahu told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington on Monday. “I have great respect for both.”

The Israeli leader will use the congressional address to explain why he’s trying to sink a potential Iran nuclear deal in a direct challenge to President Barack Obama. Netanyahu accepted an invitation to speak from Republican House Speaker John Boehner without consulting the White House, exacerbating tensions between the American and Israeli leaders.

The speech to a joint session of Congress is not without controversy as the Obama administration is totally against the address as poisoning the atmosphere between the U.S. and the Jewish state.

Real Clear Politics reported that when House Speaker John Boehner announced in January that Netanyahu would be addressing a joint session of Congress, though the White House had had not been informed of the invitation prior to the announcement. Since then, the impending speech has stirred the already-gaping partisan divide, heavy media scrutiny, questions over both the U.S.-Israeli relationship and that between Netanyahu and President Obama, and the debate over negotiations on Iran’s nuclear development program.

Continuing in its reporting Real Clear Politics wrote that Boehner’s announcement said he was “asking the Prime Minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.” But by bypassing the administration he set off a storm of controversy. Four Democratic senators and one independent, along with more than two dozen House Democrats have said they won’t attend Netanyahu’s Tuesday speech, which comes amid negotiations between Iran and the P5 +1 group of world powers, and also just two weeks before Israelis decide whether to re-elect Netanyahu or choose a new prime minister.

Republicans have been openly critical of the negotiations being pursued by the administration and even some Democrats have begun to be critical of the way President Obama has conducted the talks with Iran.

In January, ten Democratic Senators wrote a letter of concern to President Obama over the way the nuclear negotiations with Iran have been proceeding and stated, “We remain deeply skeptical that Iran is committed to making the concessions required to demonstrate to the world that its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful by March 24 – the deadline agreed upon for a political framework agreement.  Considering Iran’s history in nuclear negotiations and after two extensions of the Joint Plan of Action, we are concerned that Iran is intentionally extending the negotiations to improve its leverage at the negotiating table.”

Both Republicans and Democrats are deeply concerned the president will allow Iran to keeps its nuclear program intact, at the same time have the sanctions lifted giving Iran’s beleaguered economy a boost. Then at some future time Iran will reconstitute its nuclear program and have the sanctions gone, plus be able to produce a nuclear weapon at Tehran’s time frame.

This also coincides with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano who reported “The agency is not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”

This statement by the IAEA is a far different from the remarks by the administration who have stated Iran is cooperating.

We will have to wait and see how the negotiations play out and see what Israel and the region does.