Iran has lodged a formal complaint to the UN accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of threatening a nuclear attack on the Islamic Republic.
In his speech at the UN General Assembly last week, Netanyahu said, “Above all — above all — Iran must face a credible nuclear threat. As long as I’m prime minister of Israel, I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.”
Netanyahu’s office later said he misspoke, insisting the prepared speech said “credible military threat” instead of “credible nuclear threat.” Iran still issued a complaint, noting that Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons that it does not acknowledge.
Iranian Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani accused Netanyahu of making “explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against an independent member state of the United Nations.”
Iravani said the threat is more serious coming from Israel, which he described as an “illegitimate regime that has been widely condemned for aggressions, for apartheid policies and for support for terrorism, as well as for possessing an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction alongside advanced conventional weapons.”
The Iranian envoy said the “use or even the mere threat of using nuclear weapons, regardless of the circumstances, by anyone, at any time and in any place, is a clear violation of international laws.”
While Netanyahu and other Israeli officials are constantly sounding the alarm about Iran’s nuclear program, there’s no sign Tehran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, which has been recently affirmed by a US intelligence report.
ISRAHELL oh ISRAHELL,, we keep waiting for you to grow up…
Put away your nukes, these are not children’s toys.
Israel, oh Israel, listen, can you not hear? It is the sound of women weeping, they flood the desert with their tears…
Grow up-thing for yourself
Hi Jake:
Glad to see you.
Former “moderate” Iranian president said the following at his Al Quds sermon in 2001:
… the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam
true
It must really burn you that Iran is a more moral nation than Israel in how it treats its ethnic minorities and how it has not built and is not attempting to build the antihuman nuclear bomb despite severe provocations …
The sad thing is that Iran and Israel are/should be natural partners in that neighborhood …
Ya. It really “burns” me!
Just ask the Sunnis, Bahais and Christians in Iran how tolerant they are…and of course the gays, the women…
Dummy
I said “ethnic” minorities, dumbass. Yes, Iran has a religious govt and thus strict rules on proselytizing by other religions. But ALL people in Iran have the same political rights, unlike your favorite nation.
How about we just ask the Palestinians in Palestine?
The Palestinians is Israel have equal rights to the Jews in Israel. They are in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, are university profs, doctors, engineers etc. The Palestinians in the West Bank are not israeli citizens.
I can write slower if you like
“The Palestinians in the West Bank are not israeli citizens.”
Correct. Which means that the Israeli “Defence” Force should pack its trash and get out of the West Bank to within Israel’s borders.
I wish they could. Problem is they tried that with Gaza. Didn’t work out too well
They could.
They just won’t.
Because, so far, no one’s been able to force them to.
Personally, I think the US threatening to cut off the welfare checks entirely if Israel doesn’t cease its foreign occupations/apartheid schemes and stay within its borders might move the needle some. The UN should also move to implement the part of UNR 181 which, in addition to setting Israel’s borders, makes Jerusalem an international city. That would require a peacekeeping force, though, which I don’t much care for the idea of.
If they were to pull out, how should they respond when the inevitable rockets start raining on Israeli civilian centres? They learned a hard lesson with Gaza.
The Zionist faction in Israel is doing to the Palestinians what Wash. did to the American Indians, i.e. they want ALL their land. Wouldn’t history be different if the Indians had machine guns and rockets to fight back? Sorry, Zionism is out of gas and excuses for its atrocities. I hoped that the modern world would have learned by the atrocities Wash. inflicted on the indigenous peoples of this land, but greed, especially collective greed is still deadly as seen in the ‘settlers’ of both countries.
Sorry,but the Palestinians also want all of the land-from the”river to the Sea”.Since this article was about Iran,and not Palestine,why does Iran want to set itself up as the next superpower?
Maybe its because the Palestinians were there first and don’t like the atrocities that have been visited on them by Tel Aviv since the beginning of the Zionist return? Iran, a super power? Iran is at war with Sunni extremists in a religious war along with other Shia Muslims in the region. In fact it’s Zionist Israel that wants to be the next superpower in the region. Without the efforts of the Zionist lobby in Wash. and the American taxpayer, Israel would collapse overnight like Afghanistan; sectarian wars would start along with Palestinian resistance, and that would be the end of Zionism and Israel.
Sorry,but the Palestinians also want all of the land-from the”river to the Sea”.Since this article was about Iran,and not Palestine,why does Iran want to set itself up as the next superpower?
There is a difference. The Jews are indigenous to that part of the world. They have a 3500 year history there
Ah, so that is what gives them the right to steal land and homes, to shoot to kill kids, indefinitely imprison people on suspicion, look the other way when their settlers break into homes and steal/destroy property, etc.
I was wondering from where the Israelis derived their right to inflict this pain and act outside civilized norms.
The Holocaust Card. Don’t leave home without it.
How many US based guests on this site who are critical of Israel are willing to give up their homes to some Native Americans?
The right is self preservation in a world that goes out of its way to slaughter Jews for 2,000 years. The Right is the same right that Egypt and the rest of the Arab world had to expel their Jewish populations. If a 17 year old comes up to me with a legal weapon,then I have a right to defend myself.
The Canaanites were there first, according to your scriptures.
Great. Any Canaanites that are around today may lay claim to the land. Otherwise the Jews have the longest standing claim
Canaanite DNA is related to Greek. So, can the Greeks claim the territory? And, you know the reality of Semitic DNA in most of the people in Israel, if not, check it out. Science doesn’t lie. There’s no such thing as better by birth in reality, only in the ego of the individual who believes it, and to their detriment as shown in history.
“If they were to live within their borders instead of illegally occupying land outside those borders, and were attacked” they should respond.
Why should they stop being the bad guys? Because being the bad guys is bad. And makes them look bad.
People will rationalize their “bad” behaviour.
You once stated on this site that essentially you don’t believe in borders.Personally,end all foreign aid with the exception of short term disaster aid. Why should US citizens pay welfare benefits to the current crop of “migrants”who have breed themselves out of house and home,stripped their own places bare by hypersexualized breeding,given life to the true population bomb,and demanding every sort of benefits at the expense of the US citizen.
Certainly US aid to Israel is political.We also give billions ever year to Egypt.It is an attempt to maintain stability.Would it be better if Israel,without a qualitative edge in weapons,and feeling cornered,went first strike against Haman?
“You once stated on this site that essentially you don’t believe in borders.”
No, I more than once stated on this site that I don’t support borders. There’s a difference. I oppose the existence of states, so yes, I oppose their gang turf lines. If Israel would prefer to just dissolve rather than live within its borders, I’d find that an acceptable counter-offer.
Borders define states.Israel is not going to dissolve to please outsiders.
Correct, borders define states. And UNR 181 defines the borders of the state of Israel.
The UN vitiated any right to interfere when it did not act pre 1967 war.It did not act in the face of Arab Terrorism,yet criticized Israewhen it responded .UNR 181 was vitiated with the Arabs did not accept it and made war.
While I understand the historical significance of Hebron,it is not practical to defend it in a sea of hostile people.However,no Israeli government will abandon Jerusalem.I would be very happy to see a sharing agreement worked out for East Jerusalem-so two countries fly their flags side by sidebut-Arafat refused. So his people lost out and continue to loose out. The threat from Iran has made many Israelis shift to the right. Israel is not going to pack out and move out,any more than you or I will give up our home to Native Americans. Viva Seminoles!
If we’re going to allow states, and organizations of states, to exist they should be useful. One useful function of the UN would be enforcement of the international city status of Jerusalem. Jews wouldn’t have to “abandon” it, but Israeli troops and officials would have to stop occupying it and return to within Israel’s borders.
The UN is now dysfunctional. They can’t do a thing about Tibet,China,Ukraine ect. Israeli troops will go where they are needed to protect its citizens. Christians and Moslems were indifferent to the desire of Jewish pilgrims ot visit the Old City-now all who are peaceful may come.
Just ask the Kurds about how much political rights they have in Iran. Iran does not persecute its Bahai and other non -muslims for seeking to convert others-it persecutes then for practicing their faith.
Feces!!.My Bahai neighbor has had her relatives disappeared. What good is “political rights” when you are dead? IF you are so concerned about ethnicity-ask the Kurds Iran slaughters. As far as proselytizing-Judaism is not one. Meanwhile,Iran has hug 17 Jewish people,and if you believe they were actually spies-let me sell you a piece of a bridge.
Won`t be the first time USS LIBERTY anyone ? .
How many so called world ‘leaders’ are threatening nuclear war today? And, Wash. and its foreign policy is still continuing to provoke nations around the world with more and more wars for imperial gains, and none of those nations are an existential threat to America. Even Mexico is being threatened with US intervention and the new drug war policy. Total insanity!
Iran is so crazy. Look, I like his “intellectual visual aids” better too. But, he just wanted more dramatic effects this time. (NUCLEAR AND MILITARY Sarcasm–Same difference)
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/give-em-props-netanyahus-visual-aids-throughout-the-ages-568091
That is an obvious threat. Netanyahu is threatening a first strike under the odious ‘preemptive self-defense’ doctrine. ‘prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon’ does not require any proof. If he’s smart, he will wait to see if the psychopath, who goes by the name of Nikki Haley is elected. She’s dying to nuke Iran.
i think that Nikki Haley won’t get anywhere near the oval office