Former US senator Mike Gravel says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not be able to hinder a comprehensive nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers.

In a phone interview with Press TV on Monday, Gravel said Netanyahu “won’t prevail and I think these sanctions would be lifted and there would be no desire on the part of the Iranians to acquire a nuclear capability.”

“It’s not surprising that the public has been ginned up by the protagonist, but I think at the end of the day, a deal with Iran, ending the sanctions is going to be in th best interests of Israel,” he added.

Gravel’s remarks followed a speech by US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to a pro-Israel audience, during which he was booed and heckled for defending a nuclear agreement with Iran.

At the conference sponsored by the Jerusalem Post, Lew said, "A diplomatic solution is the best, most enduring path to achieve our goal of keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

Iran and the P5+1 group – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – reached a landmark framework agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program in Switzerland on April 2. The two sides will now work to draft a final accord by the end of this month.

“Several military leaders have come out publically; in favor of saying that they have no objections to an agreement between the United States and the other European countries with respect to the negotiations,” Gravel said.

By Press TV