Obama’s defense of the JCPOA may be helping Netanyahu in this regard, thanks to some historical claims that may be even more dubious than his arguments regarding Iran’s nuclear policies. In some of his statements, and in his recent interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Obama compared the deal with Iran to Richard Nixon’s opening to China in 1972.
因为有些历史要求甚至比伊朗核政策提法更令人怀疑，奥巴马对联合综合行动计划的辩护可能会对内塔尼亚胡有所助益。在作某些声明和最近接受纽约时报托马斯·弗里德曼采访时，奥巴马将伊朗协议与1972年理查德·尼克松向中国开放相比。