Israeli PM says Iran’s nuclear deal ‘historic mistake’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the deal world power reached with Tehran over nuclear power was a "historic mistake".

"What was concluded in Geneva last night is not a historic agreement, it's a historic mistake," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters.

"It's not made the world a safer place. Like the agreement with North Korea in 2005, this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place."

Netanyahu said that, for year, the international community has demanded that Iran cease all uranium enrichment.

'Now, for the first time, the international community has formally consented that Iran continue its enrichment of uranium," he said.

The U.S. said the changes called for in the agreement would make Iran less of a threat to Israel.

"We believe very strongly that because the Iranian nuclear program is actually set backwards and is actually locked into place in critical places, that that is better for Israel than if you were just continuing to go down the road and they rush towards a nuclear weapon," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told CNN's State of the Union.

Netanyahu disagreed.

The deal, Netanyahu argued, leaves Iran "taking only cosmetic steps which it could reverse easily within a few weeks, and in return, sanctions that took years to put in place are going to be eased."

"This first step could very well be the last step," he said. "Without continued pressure, what incentive does the Iranian regime have to take serious steps that actually dismantle its nuclear weapons capability?"