Summary

  • Mr Netanyahu addressed the US Congress about the threat posed by Iran's nuclear programme

  • The Israeli leader said: "Iran has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted"

  • Congressmen and women rose to their feet several times to give him warm ovations

  • The invitation, made by House Speaker John Boehner, is seen as a rebuke to Mr Obama's threat to veto new sanctions on Iran

  • The US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China are currently working on an interim agreement with Iran for the end of March

  • All times in GMT

Live Reporting

Tim Swift, Taylor Kate Brown and Alison Daye

  1. This concludes our live coverage of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the US Congress. Follow our continuing coverage on bbc.com/news.

  2. The top Democrat in the House, Nancy Pelosi, said Mr Netanyahu's speech "reiterated... a nuclear armed Iran is unacceptable to both our countries" but said she was "near tears" during the speech because she was "saddened" by the "condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran".

  3. "The speech was able to break one by one the arguments of those who are pro-agreement with Iran." Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett tells Israeli army radio. "I don't understand what Herzog, Tzipi and Lapid are thinking to themselves when they throw stones at the prime minister who is fighting for them. It's a disgrace, this thing is neither right or left."

  4. Scott Lehigh, columnist for the Boston Globe

    tweets: Bibi is essentially saying: I am a better judge of the US's security and self-interest than you are. Hard argument to credit. #Bibispeech

  5. Kevin Connolly
    BBC Middle East correspondent

    Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog feels he is just as tough on Iran as Mr Netanyahu, but the opposition doesn't have access to the world stage as he does.

    The opposition want to start talking instead about the cost of living and the other issues where they feel they have an advantage - they just hope those images of Mr Netanyahu basking in a warm bath of applause fade before polling day in two weeks' time.

  6. Mr Netanyahu received several ovations but the one that greeted the end of his speech was particularly prolonged. In response he waved his appreciateion and said: "Thank you, America!"

    Benjamin NetanyahuEuropean photopress agency

  7. Kevin Connolly
    BBC Middle East correspondent

    Benjamin Netanyahu's rival in Israel's election face a dilemma as the applause from the speech in Washington begins to die down. Monday's speech is the kind of television images you can't buy in an election campaign.

    But if they repeat their warnings that Mr Netanyahu is endangering Israeli security by alienating the White House they risk protracting a story which has played to the prime minister's advantage.

  8. BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says on BBC World News there's no deal immediately apparent from the negotiations.

  9. John McCain
    US senator

    tweet: Now you know why Pres Obama & company didn't want Bibi to speak to Congress! #BibiSpeech #Israel

  10. Members of Congress are reacting to Mr Netanyahu's speech. "I urge President Obama to carefully consider the well-founded concerns expressed by Prime Minister Netanyahu today," Republican Representative Thom Tillis says in a statement.

  11. Jeremy Bowen
    BBC Middle East editor

    tweets: "Slams Rouhani govt in Iran. regime always America's enemy. He's ruling out any notion of Iranian moderates who'll talk."

  12. Mr Netanyahu is presenting himself "as the conscience" of the international community, BBC Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly says.

  13. Alexander Marquardt, ABC News Correspondent

    tweets: #Netanyahu So much hype, what substance? Iran bad, no proposals for deal. Solid delivery. #NetanyahuSpeech

  14. Meanwhile in Iran, #ShutUpNetanyahu is trending on Twitter.

  15. Mr Netanyahu was met at the US Capitol by some protesters.

    Anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox Jews of the Naturei Kartra movement march across a street during a protest outside the Capitol Hill where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, 3 March 2015Getty Images

  16. Jeremy Bowen
    BBC Middle East editor

    tweet: "speech was classic Netanyahu. politics of fear & politics of bravery in adversity. Way more emotional than Obama's argument for deal."

  17. Dan Roberts, The Guardian, Washington DC bureau

    tweets: If the aim of this speech was to split enough of Congress from the White House, it feels like it is well aimed. Obama is in for a bumpy ride

  18. Katty Kay
    Presenter, BBC World News

    tweets: "Netanyahu gave a rousing address but did he make the case for not negotiating? And did he actually change anything?"

  19. Mr Netanyahu finishes to extended applause and an audience on their feet. He spoke for just under an hour.

    Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (C) delivers a speech to a joint meeting of Congress on the floor of the US House of Representatives, in front of US House Speaker Republican John Boehner (L) and Republican Senator from Utah Orrin Hatch (R) in the US Capitol in Washington, DC 3 March 2015EPA