Israel urges world: Immediately impose sanctions on Iran
Germany says Iran must pay for nuclear defiance; Khamenei denies seeking atomic bomb.
By News Agencies and Barak Ravid Haaretz Service Tags: Russia Shimon Peres Iran nuclear Israel newsThe Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the international community to impose effective sanctions on Iran as soon as possible.
The statement was issued following a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency stating that Iran may currently be working on ways to turn enriched uranium into a nuclear warhead.
"The international community must impose sanctions on Iran as soon as possible, so Tehran will understand the heavy price it would pay if it were to continue advancing its nuclear program," the statement said.
The Foreign Ministry also noted that the new IAEA report is far sharper and clearer than previous reports regarding the military aspects of Iran's nuclear program.
Earlier on Friday, the German government said that Iran's failure to comply with the wishes of the United Nations over its nuclear program is forcing the international community to pursue further sanctions against Tehran.
"The persistent defiance...of United Nations resolutions and Tehran's continuation of a dangerous nuclear policy are forcing the international community to pursue further comprehensive sanctions in New York against the regime in Tehran," government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm told a regular news conference.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was still "extending her hand" towards Iran and remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution, Wilhelm told a regular news conference.
"We rule out a military solution," he said.
Germany's comments came as Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday that Iran must more actively cooperate with the U.N. nuclear agency, the IAEA, to convince the world that its nuclear program is peaceful, Interfax news agency reported.
"Tehran must be more active in its cooperation with the IAEA and widen it," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko was quoted as saying at a briefing in Moscow.
Iran said on Friday that charges in a recently leaked IAEA report claiming the Islamic republic was attempting to develop nuclear weapons were "nothing new but tiresome."
"The West's accusations are baseless because our religious beliefs bar us from using such weapons ... we do not believe in atomic weapons and are not seeking that," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on state television.
In its report Thursday, the IAEA said that it had concerns that Iran is currently working on a nuclear warhead.
It was the first time the Vienna-based organization has used such phrasing in one of its reports, which had so far referred to past activities.
"The issues related to alleged studies regarding missiles raised in the latest IAEA report had also been raised in previous IAEA reports and are therefore nothing new but gradually becoming tiresome," Iran's IAEA envoy Ali-Asghar Soltanieh told ISNA news agency.
The Iranian envoy claimed also claimed the new IAEA chief, Yukiya Amano, confirmed the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear projects.
Earlier Friday, President Shimon Peres said that Israel must form a broad international coalition to face the Iranian nuclear threat,adding that it wasn't a question of who has nuclear weapons bur rather what it intends to do with that arsenal.
Speaking at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, Peres said that to "curb Iran's nuclear ambitions Israel must create a broad coalition of nations that can face the Iranian threat."
"The question isn't who has the bomb, but who has executioners," Peres said, adding that "the Iranians are executioners who are trying to get a bomb, and its time we called the executioner by his name, and call a dictator a dictator."
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When is this old fool retired??? He is already long time overdue!!!!
There is alot of unfairness in this World. I believe the U.S. and Israel are being hypocrites in beating the war drum. Iran's inflammatory speech is oft times in support of Palestinians being unfairly treated by Israel. Nothing will improve internationally until some fairness can come to fruition between Palestine and Israel. Hamas is no more terrorists than the U.S. or Israel and helps some of the people there regardless of what the "owned by predjudiced" media says. Iran was also infiltrated by covert agencies like Mossad and the CIA and internally distrupted and manipulated like they do everywhere. Iran doesn't trust the U.S. or Israel for this reason and of course Israel cannot trust Iran. But it looks like so many Countries are wanting to sign on to Non Proliferatlion including Iran but not the U.S. or Israel. Double standards and hypocritical foreign policies are the reason for a lack of support in the International Community. Peace, Love and all those good things.
The west should be leary of putting itself in situations in which the consequences are irrevocable- think 9/11. 9/11 was a response to western power, namely American imerialism;using its veto power to cover for Israeli war crimes, settlement expansions, its undisclosed nukes, etc...Also its invasion, occupation, and downright interference in the domestic affairs of muslim countries; the backing of the shaw, support for all their favourite dictators, Sadam, the Saudi rural family, and so on.This abuse of power has backlashes;9/11 wasn't pretty But.. I've often found myself in awkward positions, a fight at the bar, I've been scamed, coned - I'm a sucker, whatever. The point is that I have learned to avoid situations, people, going to the store past a certain hour etc.. By doing so I have reduced the number of awkward situations I find myself in, drastically. The west should take lessons, especially when it comes to Iran, making world war 3 the inexorable consequence.
Peres said that to "curb Iran's nuclear ambitions Israel must create a broad coalition of nations that can face the Iranian threat." Dear Mr. Peres and Company: First let Israel sign on to the NPT as a demonstration of good faith and put its own 84 nuclear weapons in Dimona on the table. Then start the negotiations from there, or as Mark Twain put it "keep mum". Enough already with Israel's duplicitous double standards and constant breathing out hypocritical threats and murmurings. Yours Sincerely, The Rest of the World
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the israeli side, and any such suggestion of even moderately highened gas prizes,as a result, will deterr any elected official troughout europe from publicly announce such measures. No euopean will ever believe that Iran is a treat to them, aside from a possible immigration wave, being the result of such sanctions.
it probably wouldn't be around today. But that's exactly what bothers Colin Wright, BBS News, gomi, Brent, Thabit, Tony Silver, John...
See the folowing website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saeky9I5T9c&feature=related
Why doesn't Israel put a sock in it, it never stops bleating on about Iran and trying to tell everyone what to do. Who cares what Israel thinks anyway, it's just a small player with an axe to grind. Got an idea: why doesn't Israel concentrate on mending a few fences in its own back yard, stop stealing in neighboring yards and leave the big powers to handle Iran and sanctions.
otherwise these rats will crawl all over them!
One would have expected Lieberman to demand the world impose further sanctions while Ayalon sits next to him (a little lower) wearing a Mossad badge and dark sun glasses. But it all went well this time.
"The question isn't who has the bomb, but who has executioners.... . Are you talking about US and cities "Hiroshima" and "Nagasaki" Mr Israeli president??
...which means that the world must stomach the Foreign Minister while imposing the sanctions. Normally, they'd do anything to displease Lieberman and his cohorts, but here they must follow their own interests.
Bibi's proposed sanctions are an act of war. Embargoing the oil and refined petroleum products from and to Iran are part of the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Bibi's sanctions will have all the beneficial effects of the 70s Oil Embargo on changing US foreign policy or the siege of Gaza has on Hamas. Bibi's sanctions virtually guarantee war.
Its coming...
But to those who have seen spirits, God is definitely real. Its getting about time to do some research through the Messiah. You wouldnt want to be caught worshipping a false god. Its your life, not your freinds, not your neighbors, not your enemys, but yours.
I think Mark is right about the sanctions, but we must not hesitate, immediate action is a must or we will be played like Saddam H. did the U.N.-. Sanctions must be quick and decisive, if this doesn't work well we know what Israel must do and we will be behind them.
These days, that headline might as well read 'North Korea urges world...' Look up 'pariah' if you're still confused.
Ya govorietzi po Ruski ploha. And you are quite wrong Alistair, Russia is not 'backing Iran'. While the USA and Israel are out of their minds with fear, the rest of the world is merely pissed off. The BIG question is whether China, which the Obama regime has spent the last few months antagonizing, will veto any sanctions. Everyone else is on board. Then comes the tough part. The Gulf States which Israel has just shit upon, have to enforce - to their suffering - those sanctions. No matter what the UN passes no nation - considered as sub-human trash by the Netanyahu government - need comply anymore than the government of Israel does. Sanctions against Iran were gunned down in Dubai last month. By the only nation in the world that wants a war more than anything else in the world. And it wasn't Iran.
According to Shlomo Gurevich, a senior poultry handler at the feared Feathered Provocateur Department of Mossad, Tony Silver is merely an extra intelligent parrot that came into the department?s focus after its was learned that Tony had taught itself European history and typing during his days at the Gaza Zoo. Authorized at the highest levels of the government, Israelis captured Tony in a high-risk covert operation and placed it in Copenhagen in order to use the bird in the continued brutal Zionist PR war on the Palestinians in the centre of Europe. Tony communicates secret messages to his handlers by misspelling some key words such as (K)openhagen. It is much easier to copy & paste, although less fun, don?t you think ?
...and everyone who has spent a modicum of time getting informed knows this. Iran's aspirations would be completely deflated, the day that Israel enters into a full and fair, durable peace deal. Oh, and maybe Israel should end those daily threats of the destruction of Iran. After all it is those bellicose threats that are driving this train.
Many of You want to equip the animals also with guns.
It could not have been said any better. You hit the nail on the head. thank you
Until it signs the NPT, gives up all it's secret nuclear weapons, opens all it's facilities to UN weapon inspectors, withdraws to the 67 borders, promises to stop invading other countries, promises to stop assisinating foreign nationals, and signs a comprehensive peace agreement with it's neighbors. Peace
The were in relation to posts about Section E of the latest, and yet unreleased, IAEA Report. Stripped of context or explanation they are innocuous. In various nations those words may or may not be classified. In the USA they once were. I have not belabored Haaretz for the censorship because I am aware that Israeli classification seems more strict. I have a great desire that ALL be able to understand calmly, coherently and intelligently matters involving weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons. I wish we could have a world without them and realize that had there not been nuclear weapons WW III would probably have happened. Even the reckless provocations of Ronald Reagan failed to trigger a nuclear war, though in fall of 1983 there was a moment when a single Soviet officer sacrificed his career and saved the world. I do not think it a good Idea Tony that there be more nuclear weapons or fingers on the button.
I'm not too sure where Israel gets off on its claim to be a democracy. It violates UNSCR242 with its refusal to withdraw from occupied territory, it violates article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention with its illegal settlements in occupied territory, and when it accuses Iran of the clandestine development of nuclear weaponry, then that's hypocrisy on a grand scale.
"but when Israel builds a bunch of Dimona." - Tony Silver A bunch of 'Dimona"? ". . .then Mordechai Vanunu exposes it, then is kidnapped by the Mossad, then spends 18 years in prison for exposing Israel`s lies and 11 of them in solitary confinement, you only heard about it in a Human Rights Watch." - Tony Silver Take a deep breath Tony. You didn't end that last rant with a dozen exclamation marks so you are not totally gone. Mordechai Vanunu had sworn himself to secrecy, not to selling secrets for lucre. I do not take oaths to keep secrets lightly as he did. Nor did he 'expose Israel's lies.' Israel does not deny having nuclear weapons. Rather because of the embarrassing nature of the USA in aiding Israel, we have asked them to deny to save American face. Third, yes, I did read about it in Human Rights Watch. and other places. Mr. Vanunu's photos revealed much to those who know. Too much. He is a traitor Tony. I have little use for people who sell their nations secrets.
With Russia backing iran it may not be a good idea to push until something cracks
to immediately impose sanctions on Iran. israel's credibility is below Zero. You send assasins to peaceful Dibai to kill a man in his hotel room who was unarmed. israel broke the laws of the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany using U.S. Bank issued credit cards using fake passports. In the U.S. this is a mail fraud felony . All this you want the world to heed your call. Forget it.
"Iran has the right to have its nukes!" - One Track Tony Silver Iran gave up the 'right' to nuclear weapons when it signed the NPT. It has not formally withdrawn from the NPT and demands that it be accorded the rights of a signatory to purchase nuclear materials and technology. Were Iran in compliance with the NPT to the satisfaction of the IAEA it would have no problem purchasing fuel plates for the Tehran Research Reactor as it did in the past. Iran caused it's current plight and only Iran can solve it.
But Israel would be wise to shut up. The 'world' needs to impose - and even more important enforce - new sanctions against Iran because the politicians and ayatollahs have decided to use nuclear defiance as a means of saving their self-discredited regime. The threat is not that Iran is on the verge of a nuclear arsenal. Rather unless they have a secret program many times larger than their declared one, they are far from a credible nuclear capability. The world's best intelligence agencies, some with experience of successfully seeking and finding national nuclear weapons programs for over 60 years, are monitoring Iran. The 'danger' is that Iran will develop a 'breakout capability'. The ability to develop, construct, and deploy, a credible nuclear arsenal in less than a year or two. And that is what the world needs to prevent. Iran is confrontational and the world needs to calmly, deliberately - and most important - effectively punish Iran's regime.
germany is so full of it, you can smell their deception across atlantic. In one hand they keep talking s**t about iran's nukes program in other hand sign multi billion dollar trade agreement with them! this political circus is getting too old to watch.
your self sufficiency is wonderful, as oppose to some leech states
Netanyahu's proposed sanctions, embargoing refined oil products and exports of crude oil are an act of war and would lead to WW III. I'm not a fan of the current regime in Teheran, but an act of war couched as a sanction is still an act of war. Israel used less as an excuse in 1967. Japan reacted to sanctions similar to what Bibi proposed with Pearl Harbor. Simple answer - No. It seems that Germany isn't ruling in a war, either.
I LOVE how this article begins...'The Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the international community...' As if Israel's foreign ministry has a leg to stand on nowadays. You've snubbed and shown no respect to for dignitaries and now you're URGING everyone to help you. Good luck with that...I'll be the first to send my gracious middle finger salute to you from America!
Isn't it ironic, don't you think (as Alanis Morrisette sang back in the 90s), that Israel who is at odds with quite a few UN resolutions, infringes international law on a daily basis, etc etc, is now urging the international community to impose sanctions on Iran - even for something that is not in any way breaking any international law. But it seems that is how things work. Israel says jump and the world jumps.
" The israeli government deeply worried about the country's declining international image began a campain to turn every israeli and every jew into a public relations agent" That is why they sent the mossad agents to Dubai. "The information minister, Yuli Edelstein said in a statement that a pollhe had commisioned found that 91% if israelis believe that their country had a poor image.." The best way to improve israel's image is implement the U.N. resolutions from 242 to 1701 and stop killing unarmed palestinian women and children, then the world will start loving you again.
Who do you think, is the next on Iran's list once the Little Satan has been annihilated? I'll give you a hint: it's the Great Satan. And, by the way, what do you think, will happen if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz and cannot be attacked due to his nuclear weapons? It's not only about Israel, it's about the world as we know it.
In Garching near Munich research is being done with highly enriched uranium. Go on, Germany, go on talking about "dangerous nuclear policy", maybe the world will one day see the hypocrisy in your talk and free us from this technology.
Why ask the world for sanctions??? Can't you just assassinate all of your enemies? Sure, there are more than a few of them, but what do you care? It's fun, isn't it? If assassination were an Olympic sport, Israel would be sure to score a gold medal, and even take the silver and bronze. Funny the things different nations take pride in.
for defying the U.N. security counsel resolutions since its inception that ended in the trash bin on the israeli foreign ministry. An interesting israeli report that mentions that 91 % of israelis indicate that the rest of the world hate them and they blame their goverment for it.(New York Time feb 18 ) they are right and for a good reason.
Israel refuses to sign the NPT, is not part of the IAEA, is an existential threat of its ennemies ("We will destroy Hamas, Hezbollah, it will be the end of the Assad regime, etc. etc. etc.") and is in defiance of I don't know how many UN Resolutions. Knowing all this, how is it so that the Zionist regime dares to lecture some who are actually members of the NPT and IAEA. How credible can this State be in such a debate?
ISRAEL GOT NUCLEAR WEAPONS BECAUSE ISLAM HAS ENOUGH PROPERTIES AND PEOPLES. BESIDES NO ISLAM LAND TOOK IN THE JEWS EVEN TO TURKEY OR AFGHANISTAN BETWEEN 1933-1945.
Mainstream medias must bring world court opinion to support immediate crippling measures and actions against Israel for ignoring U.N rulings for 60 years.
Will someone please show me any other country that whines as much as Israel? That incessantly demands the "world" take action against their supposed "threats"? That continuously thumbs it's nose at international law and UN resolutions? Yet, with unbridled chutzpah demands for the UN to act against everyone else in the Middle East? A country that has 400 nukes demanding another county that has no nukes it shouldn't have nuclear power - much less weapons? This goes on while Israel currently occupies, terrorizes and steals land of it's neighbors - while carrying out mafia style assassinations abroad? And the cherry on top, you have the father of Israel's nuclear arsenal as President, the man who bombed UN compounds in Lebanon filled with civilians blathering away about the "executioners" in Iran? Iran has not attacked any of it's neighbors while Israel alone in the past 60 years has been involved in a marathon of endless wars and belligerent activities unmatched in modern times.
Yes, I agree with the commentators who have been healthily skeptical about this sudden 'illumination', this 'new information', this 'smoking-gun'. Next, we'll be hearing Saint Anthony (Blair) announcing that Iran can destroy his Tuscan mansion in 45 minutes via helium balloons. What utter hypocrisy! The whole thing has been cooked-up. The West - singing from a single hymn-sheet - clearly is going to 'degrade' Iran's strength as a prelude to comprehensive Israeli strikes and then a massive NATO air assault and land invasion from all sides: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey and maybe also a Caucasian or Central Asian state. Remember Niger? All cooked-up. Lies. Remember Colin Powell and the UN Sec. Council? Lies, all lies. Remember Iraqi soldiers and Kuwaiti baby incubators? Lies, all lies. The military corporate state, against which Eisenhower warned Americans, is in charge and it needs perpetual war; that is its raison d'etre and its fuel. War is its only god.
Yes ! two states can play the same game why only one? It is so unfair. This is the age of the internet and news sharing. We know more than what you think we know. I suggest that Israel and Iran get rid of their Weapons of mass destruction or both could keep it. I wonder why Eygypt is not developing that YET! or any other country.
Soon Israel will know what it feels like to be close to a state with nuclear weapons. Lets see how quick they are to attack Lebanon or Gaza this time round.
Pakistan is a Muslim country, but I guess they have gone against the word of Allah. Notably: "The West`s accusations are baseless because our religious beliefs bar us from using such weapons ... we do not believe in atomic weapons and are not seeking that," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei So What then is Khamenei's views regarding Pakistan, are they a Muslim nation that has gone astray by developing nuclear weapons?
look at gaza! they can not make atomic bomb!
Impose sanctions on Israel too; Iran is not the only rogue state with nuclear weapons in the ME.
russia says no, china says no, USA says no, france says no, UK says no, italy says no, saudi arabia says no, egypt says no, jordan says no. but tony says yes... what's wrong with this picture...LOL
I love how all you human right guys can defend iranian rights and belitle it s threats and actions towards israel(hamas hezbollah). What a shame Iran using proxies to attack israel, where your pride why not take on israel directly. I am also disapointed israel doesn t return fire to the real source of trouble.You ship arms we destroy your arm factories and supplies. Cursing israel will only assure your failure.
of course Iran has the right to have Nukes. As a supporter of a Regime that oppressess Women , hangs kids from cranes, murders its opponents, holds Holocaust cartoon competitions and has leaders who deny the existence of the Holocaust itself, who only last week said Israel would be destroyed and who arms its Proxy armies to the teeth...of course as an advocate and supporter, to say anything else would be disingenuous. However from my point of view, and the Americans, Russians,Europe etc...they see the prospect as something of a danger. I guess wherever you are, sand is close by. Maybe try taking your head out of it. BTW Please no "Double standard" standard response. The World exists on double standards. So What?
All those problems with between "Jews" and "Pals" must be solved within Israels borders. Let Hamas and Fatah take part in general elections.
Only hurt the poor.......
Israel is in meltdown, without a shred of credibility on the world stage. It has scant regard for International Law and the Geneva Conventions, is not a signatory of the NPT, apparently has never heard of the IAEA, and now has the nerve to criticize Iran for its legitimate development of nuclear energy.
russia says no, china says no, USA says no, france says no, UK says no, italy says no, saudi arabia says no, egypt says no, jordan says no... etc..etc... but tony says yes... what's wrong with this picture...LOL
You all ar emissing the point.....Iran executes its own citizens that go against their ideas, that and homosexuals and political opponents. Israel executes their enemies....those that try and attack it and harm civilians. Israel does not hunt down their own citizens for execution. Hamas uses the UN and their own as human shield...you would be right to compare Hamas to Iran...oh wait, Iran funds them too.
Before we vote for sanctions against Iran. How about you tell us about these forged British passports. We have spoken to the Chinese and the Russians and we have found it would be adventageous to use our veto alongsside theirs. So you tell us about these passports and we won't use our veto.
OK we should impose sanctions on Iran ... and Israel for exactly the same reasons but greater ones on Israel till they sign NPT and allow IAEA inspectors. Untill Israel catches up with Iran on compliance the Iran sanctions should be on hold because Iran currently ALLOWS INSPECTIONS.
This from a country that has been defying U.N. resolutions for the last 40 years!!!
MidEast countries are trying to match Israel's nuclear capabilities. That is what is driving the nuclear arms race there.
when says germany (and the rest of the world) that all countries who have nuclear weapons must pay for their nuclear defiance, or all countries may have them? no exceptions, no hypocricy, no double standards, no double morality, no selective indignation. to treat the same causes and the same tresspasses in the same way, no matter who the person is, the group, or the nation/country. what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, all without exception!
The un would have more credibility with Iran if they had condemed the 1980 invasion of Iran by Iraq and Iraqs repeated use of wmds [chemical weapons] against Iranian soldiers and Kurdish civillians.
Do you think there are no consequences for Denmark if Iran has got "the bomb"?
More people have died in the name of God than have died as a result of conflicts over land. To say that hanging a political dissident, sodomizing protestors and torturing mothers is ok in your religion but developing nuclear weapons is not, is a joke, and a disgrace to the religion of Islam. I believe that Islam is a religion of peace, but Islam and Iran have nothing in common but the letters i and a.
i have no problem with india, or even pakistan, or even egypt in having nukes. but having nukes and threatening to destory another country is a crime waiting to happen. ahmadinejad might as well be building railroad tracks and concentration camps -- it couldn't be more obvious.
by issuing false reports, el-baradei therefore actively helped the iranians to get the bomb. within a few months of a new IAEA chief, all of a sudden the IAEA wakes up? i doubt it. they knew this all along.
Suicide Bombers? and other means of war. Did the Koran know of Atomic theory long before Einstein Openheimer et al? I know that medievel Islam is responsible for the discovery of Microbes a crucial discovery the development of mankind, imagine how that discovery has taken medicine so far. But atomic theory, that's damn impressive, if it has truth to it "The West's accusations are baseless because our religious beliefs bar us from using such weapons ... we do not believe in atomic weapons and are not seeking that," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on state television.
go and #&@* yourself?
I know that I will be deleted...
The world will be very different if this occurs, in a very sad way.
You can't find a copy of the actual IAEA's draft report anywhere on the web, but you can find extracts from all sorts of news organizations. These excerpt are all given a slant. I would like to read the draft report in it's entirety and count the number of uses of "may" "might" "could" that occur in it. I would not surprise me if there are very few facts in the report, but very many speculations. Ha'aretz ought to provide a link to the actual report.
russia says no, china says no, USA says no, france says no, UK says no, italy says no, saudi arabia says no, egypt says no, jordan says no. but tony says yes... what's wrong with this picture...LOL
Germany should pay for its stupidity. It is still paying billions to Israel for the holocaust.
Dear friends, friends of Israel, Arabs do have 22 countries (even notwithstanding Western Europe!), so if I efficiently can count, Jews (Our people) just have one; so what a fuck could be the problem in this matter ??? Israel has the God-Damned right (and the Duty!) to defend itself, whell as a son of a Marine this seems obvious to me. Shabbath Shalom, Am Israel hai, Guido.
The day after your hit squad's just been splashed all over the world's media isns't the day to be talking about executioners. "The question isn't who has the bomb, but who has executioners," Peres said" Israel seems to have both is the answer.
"The West's accusations are baseless because our religious beliefs bar us from using such weapons ... we do not believe in atomic weapons and are not seeking that," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on state television. However they do have the divine right to murder their own citizens, supply Hamas and Hezbollah with long range missiles and mortars to be used exclusively against Israeli children and all the citizens of Israel, irrespective of their respective religion or creed. Good night.
russia says no, china says no, USA says no, france says no, UK says no, italy says no, saudi arabia says no, egypt says no, jordan says no. but tony says yes... what's wrong with this picture...LOL
All these countries arrayed against Iran. Yipping and yapping, screaming and howling to the high heavens. It must be doing something right. Bravo and bonne chance. Would suggest though that when you have achieved your goal make it very clear you will never be the first ones to use them. Oh wait some scurrilous State has gobbled that one up already.
Israel has them. Iran wants them. So let them. I am not a support of Iran or Ahmdj, but if we want a nuclear free Middle - East, then Israel?s weapons will have to go.
if it is the same bullying hand that others are extending --well she can keep it as that is no way to speak to anyone bossing them around. She would do well to just listen instead and perhaps learn something. Of course, that would involve rearranging the conversation and get- ting the Israelis to put their warheads where their mouth are and come up with a sensible agreement that ensures both peoples' safety.... Otherwise this is all bluff and incitment and they wll pay too! Dutch
Just like when Iran MIGHT be building a nuclear weapon there are no end to the condemnations, but when Israel builds a bunch of Dimona, then Mordechai Vanunu exposes it, then is kidnapped by the Mossad, then spends 18 years in prison for exposing Israel`s lies and 11 of them in solitary confinement, you only heard about it in a Human Rights Watch.
Experience since 3-4 years shows that Iran will not step back in this nuclear issue. The diplomatic pressure and sanctions will decelerate the Iranian nuke activity but won't stop it. The only way to really stop is to attack and possibly invade Iran which means a global-scale mayhem that has the potential to lead to a world war. Weapon traders and ammunition bosses will be happy with a war but other bosses such as detergent bosses, consumable bosses will not be happy. So it is really an almost unsolvable problem.
The usual Iranian lies from a regime that has lost its way. According to Iran they don't execute homosexuals either. Ahmadinajad won the election too, don't ya know? Every day there is "news" about supposed Iranian technological advances. A few weeks back on the press tv website they announced a supposed advancement in pharmacology which was laughable. They triumphed Iran finally being able to manufacture an anti-cancer drug called Methotrexate. Wow! Fantastic! You managed to make a drug that has been manufactured in the west since the 1950s.Such an advancement. Of course my comment to the article wasn't published. Ironically, despite the very real, imminent threat from the Iranians, the biggest threat really comes from the Saudis who are spending billions on spreading their extremist, wahhabist version of Islam around Europe via various "donations" to mosques and their training of extremist clerics.
one of the military rebels that overthrew Irans current president at the time?, by force instead of by vote? How can he be a religious leader when he pursecutes his own people with his Bashi undercover mititia and his Revolutionary guards? Now Ali Khomenie wants people of the whole world to put their lives in his hands.
Israel and the West has been threatening Iran , and trying to provoke a war for 8 years, now Obama. I would say Israel has it's dictators over the Palestinians, as well as the West over the Middle East. A dictator -is a dictator, no matter the country. Iran didn't talk Nukes until threatened, by especially Israel.
Because Euro`s are still more important than life itself. How very sad and blind.
The Iranians are masters at the art of lying and subterfuge and have openly stated their goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. As such, nothing the Supreme Liar says can be believed.
Do the same religious tenets not apply to executing people who non-violently air their opinions of the Iranian government? What lying scum. The sooner the world takes this garbage out, the better we'll all be.
If you weren't so wrapped up in your own self-righteousness it might just dawn on you that your vision of what the political future of Israel/Pal should look like is not the Hamas vision or even the PLO vision. They don't merely want to dismantle Israel. They want to expel or kill off the 5.5 million Jewish majority that now lives there. Don't take my word for it. Read the Hamas Charter and watch and read what they teach their children. Wake up Lanos. Whether you realize it or not, your good intentions are supporting those whose goal is to carry out the largest-scale ethnic cleansing and genocide since WWII.
Peres you're insulting everyone who reads this, by saying Iranian has executioners, guess what, action speakers louder than words, Israel is doing the Daily execution of Palestinian People, Land, Peres you need to SHUT THE HELL UP
she speaks about resolutions of united nations the big hypocrisy, what about the resolutions not respecteb by Israel? and what is the value of united nations today? and the value of ban ki moon? ha ha ha ha ha
if they need nuclear weapons to do that then they should get them....I wish that North Korea or China would just give them the 'bomb" bombs...and get it over with....no more bla bla bla over this bs.... then the US and israel can go back to bully all the other third world nations
The palestinians in Israel & the west Bank have more equal oportunity, more educations facilities, more hospitals, higher level of living than any other Arab countries, as well as democracy, something rare in the Arab world
If you weren't so wrapped up in your own self-righteousness it might just dawn on you that your vision of what the political future of Israel/Pal should look like is not the Hamas vision or even the PLO vision. They don't merely want to dismantle Israel. They want to expel or kill off the 5.5 million Jewish majority that now lives there. Don't take my word for it. Read the Hamas Charter and watch and read what they teach their children. Wake up Lanos. Whether you realize it or not, your good intentions are supporting those whose goal is to carry out the largest-scale ethnic cleansing and genocide since WWII.
Mr Peres,your question answers itself: You have have bomb and the executioners. Your executioners are working as we speak, and there is no doubt that you would use the bomb. Israel's enemies are not automatically the world's enemies, neither are they automatically our friends. You speak like a signatory member of the IAEA, which you are not; you speak as if facing some immenent threat, which you are not. Give yourself a legitimate voice in this debate by signing the NPT and IAEA contract. Every day a new tail on the dog, while the same head remains, the elemental cause and effect, the fleas on the dog: the occupation. My jewish friend says there's no occupation; it was a war of conquest. Okay. Then eliminate the occupation regime and start governing and providing for all Israel's citizens, Palestinian and Jew, justly and equally under the law. Tear down the walls, build schools, hospitals, roads, provide education and jobs, equal opportunity for all. Give the people hope.
The former IAEA chief, Mohamed Al Baradei produced false reports to enable the mullahs regime to speed up Iran nuclear program . Mainstream medias draw world attention to a fake passports affair in Dubai instead of to at least one of its sheikh leaders connected to Hamas-Iran and to Dubai port connected to Iran nuclear program , Mainstream medias must bring world court opinion to support immediate crippling measures and actions against Iran nuke program . Mainstream medias must draw world attention to Afganistan Helman province in which Taliban use human shields same as hamas , and the Nato capture one of a Taliban leader in Pakistan-Karachi.
"The West's accusations are baseless because our religious beliefs bar us from using such weapons ... we do not believe in atomic weapons and are not seeking that," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on state television. Oh my G-d!!!! I would laugh my lungs out it weren't so terribly serious. If there ever was a doubt about the lunacy of the Iranian leaders, here`s the proof! Anyway, what the heck does Khamenei mean when he says "we don`t believe in nuclear weapons"? What is there to believe in? They exist, they are lethal, and the countries which have them use them as deterrent. Again I say: Oh my G-d!!!! This reinforces my belief that governments do not represent people, they represent their own interests. For I don`t believe -won`t believe- the Iranian people can be as numbnuts as their "leaders".
Wow, 'executioner", directly after Israel's little hit in Dubai. I never realized just how funny this old "man of peace" windbag could really be.