During a visit to Lebanon, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that time was of the essence to finalize a deal with Iran, cautioning that Israel might launch an attack against Iran soon in the absence of such a deal.
Kouchner also said that he didn’t believe sanctions were an effective way to deal with Iran, noting that they wind up disproportionately harming the poor and do little to those in power.
Speaking through the state media, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki downplayed the threat, insisting that Israel was in a weak position and in no position to launch an attack against them.
Though the IAEA has insisted that the alleged “threat” posed by Iran’s civilian nuclear program is greatly exaggerated, Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack the nation if the international community didn’t force Iran to abandon it.
is he the foreign minister of Israel. How does he know what Israel is planning? unless the French are included in the plan. Secondly, isn't this a war threat against a United Nations member…which is against the law.
If the foreign minister of Egypt had announced that Israel should draw back from Palestine or Iran would soon attack it…..I wonder what the world reaction would be ??!
Something like these:
"OMG!! Iran threatens to attack Israel !!"
"Iran declares war on Israel"
"Iran wishes to wipe Israel off the map !!"
Not a blip on the MSM about this threat !!!
You are so right my friend, so right!
Why is Israel allowed nukes and no other country in the middle east?
I agree with you Loraine. Why is it that Israel nukes are not mention………..Double standards..
The west have one law for the middle east and another for Israel……..
i think that no-one should allow to have nukes….
Israel always gets away with wahtever they do…. There are above the law i assume…..
For example: What they have done to gaza…….
What is it called when a state threatens to nuke another country if the international community does not comply with its demands?
Terrorism.
world leaders will never hide thier bias. shame on them.a little population of a land harassing the entier world.
The underlaying problem is same as USA as in France,which is–a small war mongering manority has taken over both governments.History does repeat itself. WWI WWII (WWIII)
Well, well, well – the right-wing blog attack unit of the Israel Lobby has finally discovered the comment pages of antiwar.com – and it happened during the first annual conference of J Street. Let's hope that an agreement is reached and soon — so Israel will not feel compelled to contemplate a nuclear attack on Iran – a project that she has spent years and billions of dollars from US taxpayers in development.
Soooo… since time is of the essence, you’d think the French minister would be concentrating his efforst on the aggressor, Israel…. but oooh no!
what use are the French at the talks?
Well, they provide an excellent rubber stamp for US/Israeli proposals, don't you think?
so they're not as useless as they first appear then
The Europeans have stressed again and again that they have a "moral" duty to not only allow Israel to do to the Palestinians what Europe once did to Jews, but also facilitate it in any way they can. One is tempted to feel sorry for Europe, given the extent it emphasizes and stresses its own moral defeat and deficit. Though the temptation won't last long on close examination of Europe's moral defeat and deficit.
Funny how everyone seems to forget the Georgia embarrassment so quickly……. And in a way Lebanon too……
Have they really thrown caution to the wind a they wish us to believe…?? Are they really going to ignore or trust the bear because it's fall and they expect he will sleep till their werk is done?? When the bully gets his, it is not by loud proclamation, but by stealth, distraction and it's more like the mongoose less like the cobra.
Is the West being drawn into some snare of Eastern design?? Probably not, but a country like Israel on a postage stamp parcel and one half of it's population dominating the other half, should really be VERY careful in this thermonuclear age just whom they plan to offend of irradiate, if even by accident.
Russia could end all their dreams in an hour or less, and they have given warnings, but not as boisterously as those who wish to attack. It would be a terrible shame if reckless actions caused an intercontinental pogrom.. Israel should stop her endless gambling before she loses everything…..
How come Israel can issue threats at will to attack countries? Imagine other countries doing this? The double-standard for this rotten little state is amazing.