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Post by Daniel on Feb 16, 2017 11:08:56 GMT -5
Iran calls Israel 'biggest threat' to world peace
AFP, 16/02/17
Iran said Thursday that Israel's atomic arsenal is the biggest danger to world peace, a day after US President Donald Trump vowed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Israel is the "biggest threat to the peace and security in the region and the world," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.
Trump had warned Wednesday after meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington that the "threat of Iran's nuclear ambitions" was one of the major security challenges facing Israel.
The US president told reporters that he would do "more to prevent Iran from ever developing -- I mean ever -- a nuclear weapon".
But Ghasemi dismissed Trump and Netanyahu's comments as "nonsense".
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Post by Daniel on Feb 16, 2017 11:22:37 GMT -5
Nasrallah warns: We can hit Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona
David Rosenberg, 16/02/17
The Hezbollah terrorist organization warned Israel it could strike anywhere in the country, and threatened to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona in southern Israel.
Speaking on Thursday, Hezbollah chairman Hassan Nasrallah boasted that his group was capable of hitting any strategic target in the Jewish state, including the nuclear research facility in Dimona – one of Israel’s most sensitive sites.
“We invite the Israeli enemy to empty not just the ammonia tanks in Haifa,” mocked the Hezbollah leader, “but also to dismantle the nuclear core in Dimona,” claiming that “it is in our power to threaten any part of Israel.”
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Post by Daniel on Feb 20, 2017 10:02:31 GMT -5
Iranian FM: I advise Israel not to to get into trouble
Yoel Domb, 20/02/17
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated that his country will not provoke anyone or instigate hostilities, but it will defend itself.
“We will defend ourselves. I do not believe that people looking at our history, people looking at our capabilities will ever make the decision to engage in that misadventure," said Zarif in an interview with the BBC.
With reference to the proposal by Israel, the US and Saudia Arabia to renew sanctions against Iran after it test-fired a ballistic missile recently, Zarif termed this a "violation of international law" and issued a veiled warning to those states...
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