Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Saturday that Israel should draw a “red line” for itself, instead of Iran, according to AFP.
In the context of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, Vahidi said that “if having the atomic bomb is passing the red line, the Zionist regime, that possesses dozens of nuclear warheads and weapons of mass destruction, has passed the red line years ago, and it has to be stopped.”
Netanyahu has been on an aggressive political and media campaign to get the United States to outline “red lines” in Iran’s nuclear program, beyond which would warrant military action. This, despite the fact that Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
The controversy about some imaginary Iranian nuke has long been hyped out of proportion, with hawks warning about all the dire consequences of a nuclear Iran. But Israel possesses a significant arsenal of deliverable nuclear weapons itself, which are not officially acknowledged and are hidden from international inspectors.
“Is the occupying and aggressor Zionist regime that possesses nuclear weapons more dangerous? Or an Iran that doesn’t have nuclear weapons and which insists more than anybody on nuclear disarmament, and seeks only to have peaceful nuclear energy abiding by international rules?” Vahidi reportedly asked.
Iran has indeed repeatedly called for a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, something Israel has balked at for decades.
The problem is that for warmongering countries there is no red line, they could do anything,commit any crime and be the most democratic and with human right country in the world they have created.
After Netenyahu's ridiculous speech at the UN, the tide may be turning. I may be imagining it, but i see a gradual shift in public opinion toward leaving Iran alone if not outright sympathy, and getting fed up with Netenyahu's constant braying and demanding the US start a war against Iran. Bibi: shut up already!
Fine, draw the red line. Then every country in the middle East should be restricted to this line, including Israel. IAEA inspectors should enforce this by visiting all nuclear sites. Will you agree to this Bibi?
20 years of Netanyahu saying Iran is a year from getting the bomb, So who do you believe Netenyahus 20 years of Retoric
OR
The IAEA, the CIA and EVERY other US intelligence agency, Mossad AND Shin Bett, the Pentagon, the Israeli Military intelligence.
Netenyahu cannot even get his OWN intelligence agencies of Military to back him on this, there is a significant credibility gap here!
It's a telling day for US and Israeli leaders when Iranian leaders are the most logical, honest and cool-headed ones in the room. It's quite refreshing to hear a politician 'tell it like it is'- and that the US and Israel are getting schooled on that by a Muslim nation makes it that much sweeter ~
WHERE is there a red line for the "opaque" Is-raeli nuclear BOMB program….. Is it TEN BOMBS, FIFTY BOMBS, ONE HUNDRED BOMBS, FIVE HUNDRED BOMBS, A THOUSAND BOMBS………. TENS OF THOUSANDS…??????????? WHERE IS IS-RAELS RED LINE..???
May the hypocritical, warmonger Zionist entity vanish from the pages of time.