[Iran Press TV] The powerful Israel lobby has "hijacked" the US Congress, especially the Republican Party, through the neoconservative movement and may attempt to kill the Iran nuclear accord with a false flag operation, a former US Senate candidate says.Pro-Israel groups in the US have gained significant influence within the GOP through wealthy political donors such as Sheldon Adelson, a Zionist Jew with strong ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
Adelson "has openly talked about using nuclear weapons against Iran on a preemptive basis; this is how evil this man is," Dankof told Press TV on Friday.
"It is particularly frightening to me the number of Republicans that are listening to this kind of nonsense and whose actions in the Congress and in the presidential primaries in this coming year will be dictated by such a man as Sheldon Adelson who is nothing more than an agent for Israel," he added.
Dankof's remarks come after Congress began its review of the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 on Thursday.
"So let's hope that at least in the House and the Senate that these Republican warmongers and their counterparts among the pro-Israel warmongers in the Democratic Party will not have the ability to muster a two-thirds vote against this deal," he said.