Washington, November 9 : US President Barack Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday to discuss ongoing negotiations on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, the White House said.

Barack Obama updated Netanyahu on the negotiations between major world powers and Iran in Geneva and underscored his strong commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a weapon of nuclear , which is the aim of the ongoing negotiations, President and prime minister agreed to continue to stay in touch on this issue,”

Delegates of the US, Britain,China, Russia, France and Germany, known as the P5+1 group , are negotiating with Iran in a new round of nuclear talks in Switzerland, Geneva. They are considering easing limited sanctions on Iran in exchange for concrete steps to halt nuclear activities.

This is the deal of the century for Iran,” Tehran does not forfeit anything, He added, In the best case scenario, ” Iran will stop enriching uranium for a few days, but the entire momentum of the international sanctions will be lost,”.