Israel is the Middle East's Sole, But Undeclared, Nuclear Power, and Netanyahu Threatens to Use Military Force to Keep It That Way
Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons: Netanyahu
January 17, 2016AFP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel would not allow it to obtain nuclear weapons, after sanctions were lifted under Tehran's historic nuclear deal with global powers.
"Israel's policy has been and will remain exactly what has been followed: to not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said during a cabinet meeting, according to his office.Netanyahu strongly opposed the nuclear deal with Israel's arch-foe Iran and argued that it would not prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
He has also said that the lifting of sanctions will allow Iran to further back proxy militants in the region, including Israeli enemies Hezbollah.
Israel has not ruled out military force in order to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, though analysts say unilateral action would be highly unlikely.
Netanyahu said Israel will continue to monitor Iran's agreements "on nuclear, on ballistic missiles and on terrorism" for potential violations.
If violations occur, the international community should "take tough and aggressive sanctions" against Iran, Netanyahu said, adding that Israel "is ready to face any threat".
Israel is the Middle East's sole, but undeclared, nuclear power.
Netanyahu said in a statement on Saturday that "Iran has not relinquished its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons" and pledged to "warn of any violation" of the agreement.
The UN's atomic watchdog late on Saturday confirmed that Iran had complied with its obligations under last summer's accord and the United States and European Union announced they were lifting the sanctions that have for years crippled the country's economy.
The highly complex deal drew a line under a standoff dating back to 2002 marked by failed diplomatic initiatives, ever-tighter sanctions, defiant nuclear expansion by Iran and threats of military action.
In addition the nuclear talks put Iran and the United States on the road to better relations, more than three decades after the Islamic revolution that toppled the US-backed shah.
Netanyahu's harsh opposition to the accord, including in a speech to the US Congress, led to troubled ties with the United States, Israel's most important ally. He has scaled back his public comments on the deal in recent weeks.
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- Rouhani: All happy about deal except Israel, US hard-liners Associated Press
- Israel minister warns of 'dangerous' Iran deal implementation AFP
SAM said at Yahoo:
ReplyDeleteDid Israel prevent Russia, the U.S., France, China, Pakistan, the U.K., India or N. korea from developing nuclear weapons? Did any country prevent Israel from developing nuclear weapons? When any country is determined to have NWs they will eventually get them because there will always be countries willing to sell them the materials despite sanctions as with NK. When neighboring nations fear the intent of their neighbors or perceived enemies they think it reasonable to want the same capabilities. That is apparently how some of Israel's neighbors feel.
fearless said:
When one country obtain nukes, it forces rivals and neiboring to follow suit. If israel is concerned about iranian nukes, it should have signed npt. Nobody listen to israeli cries considering it is sitting on its own pile of nukes.
MadMax said:
During the latter stages of then Iran-Iraq War, both countries exchanged ballistic missile attacks on each other. Since the end of that war, Iran, wary of Israeli attacks on Syria and Lebenon, embarked on a ballistic missile expansion program to give them the capability of retaliating immediately if they were attacked by Israel. We don't think of ballistic missiles of being defensive, but in this case, the Israelis have to be calculating Iranian retaliation in any attack on the Iranians. Any attack on Iran would certainly invite ballistic missile retaliation, and the Iron Dome anti-ballistic missile system Israel has would be revealed as an expensive failure.
Dairy's Scary said:
The truth is that while I think it is stupid to pursue nuclear power, due to its very nature, I think that Iran has every right to pursue it if we do it. That said, no more countries need nukes and we need to be getting rid of them. What is this? The reason we built them was all a scam. The cold war was nothing but the biggest transfer of wealth in history from workers to the military industrial complexes of the U.S.S.R and the U.S. A total of 2 bombs have been dropped on people on earth and that is all that should ever be and never should have been. Less nukes, not more.
Rumsfeld Buries Admission of Missing 2+ Trillion Dollars in 9/10/01 Press Conference
ReplyDeleteOn September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for.
Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." According to a report by the Inspector General, the Pentagon cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
Such a disclosure normally might have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried. To the trillions already missing from the coffers, an obedient Congress terrorized by anthrax attacks would add billions more in appropriations to fight the "War on Terror."
The Comptroller of the Pentagon at the time of the attack was Dov Zakheim, who was appointed in May of 2001. Before becoming the Pentagon's money-manager, he was an executive at System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies including remote-controlled aircraft systems.
Zakheim is a member of the Project for a New American Century and participated in the creation of its 2000 position paper Rebuilding America's Defenses which called for "a New Pearl Harbor."
Syed wrote at Yahoo.com;
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu said,
"Israel will continue to monitor all of Iran's international violations" and called for "aggressive sanctions against each violation. What is clear is that Iran will now have more resources to divert to terrorism and its aggression in the region and around the world."
Look who is talking!!
1) Israel has hundreds of nuclear warheads pointing at Iran ready to go any second and he has the gals to talk about Iran having one.
2) Iran has "NEVER" attacked any country for over 250 years. Can Netanyahu say the same for his country that has been terrorizing her neighbors since her creation in 1948.
3) Netanyahu (A War Criminal) killed over 400 Palestinian innocent children purposely, intentionally and deliberately. That is a war crime that needs to be settled.
4) Netanyahu in collaboration with Saudis created Al-Qaeda rebels who killed over 250,000 innocent Syrians and caused over 4 million refugees.
5) Out of that Syrian crisis emerged the world's worst terrorist, ISIS, which Israel has supported and armed covertly.
Is there anyone who would continue to monitor this terrorist and war monger Netanyahu? That is the most important question.
World is more fearful of Israel than Iran.
Kashy replied to Seyed:
ReplyDeleteWell said. A simple correction to #3. He massacred 550 children in 2014 Gaza incursion most killed using laser guided missiles.
Also, Israel is an apartheid state and one of major stated sponsor of terrorism with longest occupation in modern human history imprisoning millions of innocent people.
Syed wrote:
1) We are talking about Israelis and their war monger and war criminal leader – Netanyahu.
2) No one can wipe (or dare to wipe) Israel off the map – So get off that old creepy line against Iran. It is Israel that has the nukes and can wipe Iran off the map any second.
3) Oh Yeah Israel kills their neighbors and their innocent little babies deliberately is called war? That is “NOT” war. It is called “War Crimes”. Get your facts right. And for that Netanyahu will pay heavily in Hague.
4) No one is talking about disliking Jews. It is the hypocrisy in Israel that is the problem. Israel treats Palestinians like Apartheid and that leads to counter terrorism in Western world by Palestinian sympathizers. If Israel solves Palestinians problems and give then equal human rights (as she gives to Israelis), all the problems in the world would (related to Palestinians) will be solved.
5) Iran does “NOT” hate Israel. Iran hates Zionism. Any decent human being on this planet should hate Zionism and get rid of this cancer from our planet. Zionism breeds hatred and xenophobia. It harbors five evils,
1) Jingoism 2) Racism 3) Ethnocentrism, 4) Religionism and worst of all 5) Tribalism
All these “Five Evils” (cancers) are the root cause of all the problems in the world.