Peres: World doesn't need military assault on Iran nuclear program

Peres: "We are part of the civilization" Peres: "These proposals deviate from the basis of democracy" Peres: "A government is not elected to rule, but to serve" All 3 statements refer to Israel and appear today in Haaretz. Please Peres, make up your mind!

IE. Applying severe sanctions than the ones at present that are not hurting Iran as much as it should.But the West & the US is being shy coming forward on this aspect.. Why is a puzzle. Iran needs to SUFFER further sanctions (that it will hurt the innocent iranian population is a pity). But on the whole they are tired with the present mullah ridden regime with its restriciins that barrs them to renew a stronger PROTEST than hitherto..They tried once ,but were subdued by the RVG''s who follow the dictums of the Govt. You are quite correct in asuming the unacceptability of attacking IRAN

if pres`s nose grows an inch per lie, how long would his nose be, for all the lies he has spread?

Only one important thing people need to realize. Those living in Israel have MUCH to worry about in regards to an Iranian nuclear strike. And people like Ahmadinejad seem to have little reservations to do this. That's where the matter stands. It's not a "moral" issue but a life and death one!

President Peres going to CNN in order to stop Netanyahu from attacking Iran says volumes about Israel’s internal politics.

Peres has become somewhat pragmatic and now accepts a nuclear Iran. He knows that attacking Iran means committing suicide.

I note with interest that no one heard Peres say that the right solution to the Palestinian problem was the two state solution to be achieved by negotiations.

"The World doesn't need military assault ..". How true if only everybody listen ,,, Shame ! The Middle East was never part of that World that listen to Israel President. They call it Arab Spring ... It is very early in the day. They must see the flowers first before giving it that miracle name.

What is Morality? Lying about Iran threatening Israel openly? I am pretty sure Iran, the country claimed to be so belligerent, has repeatedly denied militaristic intent against Israel, Ahmadinejad explained that he never said Israel should be wiped from the map on Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN), and, you, Mr. President, are lying.

...more of the global interests or the interests of Israel,only? I wonder, what Israel does...Anway - in the possible war in the future the biggest loosers are Iran and Israel together.

Oil, greed, hypocrisy, gas, media anti-SIsrael bias, and all that is wrong in the world, fails to understand what Peres -in a somewhat cryptic way- is trying to say: Iran's regime is existentially dangerous to Israel, a tremendous terror-supporting threat to Arab and Muslim countries, as well as places as far as Argentina, Yemen, Nicaragua and Indonesia. However, Peres is underlying the fact that a UN-member state which denies the Holocaust and explicitly threatens another UN-member state with genocide, is a moral shame for the entire world. Only anti-Semitism can blur this fact.

The Iranian rulers and their Revolutionary Guards are brutes who undestand the language of power, thus they should be treated with force.

Peres doesn't understand that not attacking Iranian Nuclear FFacilitieSS can't be AN OPTION: i'ran'SS already, "in t'here as well out t'here", while Israel is being asked - begged - not to attack Iran and while Iran - because of NOT being attacked and because of all support worldwide - not only a threat to Israel, but to all who live in a region where many countries have close ties with Iran in a desperate search for a better equipped military defense against countries a vasy majority of them don't like! HOW SORRY shall he BE when a threat of the size of Iran reached the American Continent, from the South, IN NO TIME?! When the iranian bomb is on land in South America U S A really have A PROBLEM - one that they shall not be able to contain - as Iran penetrates USA and WELL from the South. Texas won't allow that to BE HAPPENING - in no scenario - and it's now ABOUT IF Texas is going to FIX it like it FIXED JFL or not?!

that Iran's threats are all about the preparations for the coming of the 12th Imam.I read that in order to get this guy to appear,a third of the world's population must die and another third...something is supposed to happen to them.That will leave a third of us! .It's no more crazy than believing that we wait for the messiah,when all the dead will relive etc.EXCEPT that if this is what drives the Iranians,they are beyond reason,as you cannot reason with religious people.And we've got quite a lot of it in Jerusalem and elsewhere..Personally I dont trust Gods or polititians.between them they killed 6 million Jews and caused all the wars.PEACE!

Should there have been a mere moral attack on Hitler? Iran is the international world's problem, but only Israel will truly attack because it is an existential issue for Israel.

It is no coincidence that as Israel becomes increasingly isolated diplomatically, mainly because of its refusal to work for a 2-state settlement, it is using every opportunity to try and claim that its problems are equally applicable to many of the rest of us. Why - because as its policies are alienating so much of the world, it has to try and regain support by making others feel as vulnerable as it.

should prevail. The region and the world need peace, not more bigger wars.

WOW Peres is WORRIED with protecting Iran and not Israel: as he worries A LOT about how Iran can be protected against Israel and not viceversa. I can not believe a President of Israel IS VYING FOR the iranianSS to be saved instead of Jews. A thing we would like to know: if a bomb is dropped on Aruba, provided for by Iran, how will Peres explain that, to me and so many others, and what would he say?? SORRY?? Iran's not only a threat in Middle East as it is also in other parts of the World, the same ONE vying for Israel not to attack Iran, and thus what can Peres possibly be vying for: Iran not attacked is one of the biggest and most lethal mistakes the World is making. Ænd: hopefully Israel doesn't follow SAME MISTAKE. As hopefully Israel doesn't follow SAME MISTAKE: An Iran also nuclear won't be contained as it has a WorldWideWar AMBITION that isn't, AT ALL, going to stop within a Middle East ON its own.

In 1981 Peres was against Begin's plan to bomb Saddam Hussain's nuclear reactor because he was worried about the diplomatic trouble it would cause between Israel and France who were building it and he was planning to go to the media tell them Begin's plan. As a result Begin had to order the attack earlier than planned to head off Peres before he could destroy it all. So because he was worried about how this would affect Israel in the eyes of the rest of the world he was willing to let Saddam Hussain get a nuclear weapon. In the end the entire world, US included did condemn Israel and the UN passed a resolution condemning Israel for it but at least Saddam didn't get a nuke. Ten years later when those same countries who condemned Israel for attacking Saddam's nuclear facilities were very grateful for Israel's actions because they sent their soldiers to invade Iraq to get Saddam out of Kuwait, if he had a nuke back then he may well have used it, think of all the hundreds of thousands of western soldiers who would have been killed if he had got his nuke and used it. Once again Peres is the diplomat and all that matters to him is image and diplomatic fallout if Israel does do something. Today the west is against an Israeli attack but I wonder how they will feel 5 years from now or less when Iran has not just a nuke but has increased the range of its missiles so they can hit not just Israel but every inch of Europe and mainland America because its inevitable that will happen eventually because they are developing more advanced missiles with longer ranges all the time and one day in the not to distant future they will be able to hit just about anywhere in the world then Iran won't be an Israeli problem it will be a global one and we will have a new Cold War era position where we are all pointing nukes at each other just waiting for one side to press the red button.

NOW TO 'STOP' IRAN FROM BECOMING AGAIN YET ANOTHER THREAT: it's Peres who appeases the World by doing what is best for the World while the World as it is is not caring about Israel. Israel is being protected. by the Israeli PM as well as Israeli Government, as by the hand of Peres the World IS PROTECTED - by Israel - while Israel is not evenly protected and that is what is so wrong about Peres.

Peres should leave the thinking to the Israeli leadership and military. Since Israel cannot count on Barack 'Let;s make peace with Iran, even if Iran nukes Israel' Obama, increasingly, it looks like Israel will have to take care of business on its own. It's not by talking to China and Russia that you stop Iran's nuclear program. even economic sanctions won't do the trick. Iran is the only country that has openly declared it wants to annihilate Israel. Iran must not be allowed to reach the nuclear threshold. From that moment on, any Iranian nutcase, after having had a bad day, could decide to nuke Israel, just because he can. This situation is unbearable, especially since the MAD principle cannot be applied on Iran. The world better expect an attack on Iran soon. Israel prefers an all-out war in the Middle East, than to face a second Holocaust on the Jewish people.

In the end, any Government that has faced military aggression and seeks to condone Iran for attempting to arm itself with effectively a military deterrence should be ashamed of itself. Above all, the Govt of Israel cannot point the finger at Iran for one simple reason. Israel uses past injustices and military aggression as the reason for its aggressive military posture, so why not Iran? We all know that Iran fought a long and brutal war against Iraq, supported by the West. With the horrors of that war clearly etched in Iran and its politicians - why are we so surprised that they are attempting to arm themselves with the bomb? I can understand their logic because it is logical. You may not like the political structure in Iran - big deal! as long as you have a choice not to live there just go on with your own life.

Make peace not war .

"we are part of the civilization of the family of international responsible countries and we expect that leaders that make a promise will fulfill it,..." This is got to be the joke of the week!

He ought to know. He's the president of one.

He should repeat this in Hebrew on Israeli TV. Somebody with influence needs to tell Netanyahu and Barak.

as Netanyahu's bluff is called.

Iranian authurity wants isolation from international community in order to act as they wish. The threat of war and new sanctions will allow them to achieve it. These sanctions have greatly impacted on normal people's lives rather than the people within government and adminstration.

Israel though the Mossad has the killed nearly 20 people in Teheran in an attack targeted at a nuclear scientist. This is terror and terrosrism to me not defense. There certainly is nothing moral about Israel hitting Iran with nukes. I believe that Iran should have the bomb, this would rebalance in a positive way the power balance in the region. This aside, is Iran nuclear programme as dangerous as that of Saddam Hussein?

Peres lied to CNN about which country is threatening to attack which. And Israel is the only country lying about having nukes. It's dreadful that we fund these liars.

israel is the biggest threat to this world.

have they no shame?!

actually the ones who are truly punished are the iranian people. they are poor, isolated and are run by a corrupt and evil regime. they have the highest heroin addict rate in the world. the mullah regime will have to fall like the soviet regime in russia.

A sane voice among the cacophony of screeching voices. It has been my sterling conviction that Israel should only use force at the last possible moment when all other avenues are blocked in front of her. It's a question of last resort. And then : Let loose the dogs of war,but until that time sit tight. Iran is the problem for the world to solve.

What the hell is really going on, what is going on with us? What for God's sake is all this about?

"They are the only country threatening to destroy another country, openly. They arrest the opposition, they shoot around, they spread arms, they encourage every center of terror all over the world," Funny that - Whether Peres says it, or Khamenei says it, it applies to both nations.