"Ladies and gentlemen, time is running out," he warned. "This is not a slogan. This is not over-dramatization."
Since then, Netanyahu, now serving a second tenure as prime minister, has been consistently warning that Iran is within two or three or five years of obtaining a bomb.

Ahead of Tuesday's speech, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria noted Netanyahu's long history of alarmism.

"It's worth remembering that Netanyahu came to this Congress ... 19 years ago. He made a speech in which he talked about Iran's nuclear weapons. He predicted at the time that the deadline was extremely close. He defined what he meant by that deadline, by how close it was, a couple years earlier to the Israeli parliament, where he said Iran would have nuclear weapons in three to five years. That was 25 years ago. Netanyahu has been talking about Iran's imminent nuclear program for 25 years. Just as a factual matter with respect to my friend, he's just been wrong for 25 years," Zakaria said.

The Intercept compiled a collection of Netanyahu's warnings in one place. For example, in 2002 in his latest speech Netanyahu dismissed sanctions, inspections and negotiation as means of mitigating the threat he's been outlining, which effectively leaves a military strike as the only option. "This is a bad deal, a very bad deal. We're better off without it," Netanyahu said of the ongoing negotiations with Iran.

Shortly after the Israeli prime minister ranted against the ongoing Iran nuclear talks, President Barack Obama told reports that Netanyahu 'did not offer any viable alternative.”

The US President said there was 'nothing new' in Netanyahu’s speech

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a press release following Netanyahu's speech in Reactions To him said:” I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech – saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation,".

The fourth round of talks between Iran and US delegations headed by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry ended minutes ago in Montreux, Switzerland. 

Zarif said on Tuesday that Netanyahu's address was trying to affect negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and the creating tension and conflict doesn't help anyone.

"We have made some progress but have a lot of challenges yet ahead," a senior U.S. State Department official told reporters traveling with Kerry. - See more at