Bibi’s done it again.

Israel's Prime Minister has once again demonstrated to the world that the wool remains firmly pulled over his eyes. Either that, or he has a fundamentally flawed understanding of contemporary international politics. Or, he’s just lying, plain and simple.

Quite astonishingly, he claimed that this weekend’s (failed) Geneva negotiations offered the “deal of the century” to Tehran. For the rest of the world, it was a “very bad” one. Did the Iranians really “get everything and pay nothing” to be where they are today? What is he on about?

It is just yet more of the usual political posturing. Israel does not want to be seen as accommodating to a potentially nuclear Iran, in any capacity whatsoever (“potentially” and “nuclear” are to be interpreted with as much poetic license as possible).

In standing firm, resolutely ignoring any morsels of diplomatic progress that the rest of the world appears to be making with Tehran, Tel Aviv seems willing to sacrifice its intellectual reputation and exaggerate almost anything that comes its way – even going as far as to suggest that Iran has made no concessions and paid no price for its past actions, and that a diplomatic means of working out this nuclear quagmire is not a feasible option. It is political rhetoric gone mad.

Whether the sanctions are the thing that brought Iran to the negotiating table or not, they are most certainly making the Islamic Republic pay a price, and a big one at that.

For over three decades now, the United States has been trailblazing for the rest of the world, enforcing diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic and slowly but surely asphyxiating its economy. Across those same three decades, Iran has emerged as an international pariah, facing severe military threats from many of the countries that surround it, not to mention those many thousands of miles away as well. Granted, Tehran (rhetorically, at least) has given as good as it’s got, but never has it packed anywhere near as much of a military punch as any of its principle opponents.

So, to say at this stage, in this state of economic and political affairs, that Iran has given nothing is absolute tosh. If you believe the Hagues and Kerrys of this world, we are closer now than ever to seeing a resolution to this untenable stalemate. It follows, then, that the inflammatory bile pouring forth from a certain few, a very few few, should be brought to the fore and understood for what it really is. People need to call Bibi out on this particular tune - it is getting boring.