Do not test Israel, Netanyahu warns Iran
MUNICH, Germany: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran on Sunday over aggressions by Iran and its “proxies” in Syria, saying he would not allow them to “put a noose of terror around our neck.”
Calling it “a message to the deny Iran’s involvement in Syria.” tyrants of Tehran,” he warned “Mr. Zarif, do you recognize in a speech at the Munich Sethis? You should, it’s yours,” Necurity Conference: “Do not test tanyahu said, adding that the IraIsrael’s resolve.”
His fiery comments came as Zarif responded by calling Netensions between the arch enemies tanyahu’s speech a “cartoonish cirhave mounted after clashes incus” which “does not even deserve volving Syrian forces this month, the dignity of a response.” sparked by Israel’s downing of what it called an Iranian drone sent from Syria.
- yahu brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal at the podium.
“Here’s a piece of that Iranian drone, or what’s left of it, after we shot it down,” he said.
Referring to Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who spoke later in Munich, he said: “No doubt Mr Zarif will brazenly
‘Dangerous tiger’
The clash came as Netanyahu again slammed the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Iran and world powers, which is under threat by opposition from the administration of US President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu compared the deal to the “appeasement” of the 1938 Munich Agreement that only emboldened Hitler, and said it
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up an object he claimed was a piece of an Iranian drone shot down in Israeli airspace as he gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on Sunday in Munich, southern Germany. allowed Iran to hide its continued efforts to build an atomic bomb.
“The sanctions relief that the deal provided has not moderated Iran... In fact it has unleashed a dangerous Iranian tiger in our region and beyond.”
“Once armed with nuclear weapons, Iran’s aggression will be unchecked, and it will encompass the entire world,” Netanyahu claimed.
Those accusations were dismissed by Zarif.
violate an agreement which all of us tried, in spite of Netanyahu’s attempts, to achieve,” he said.
Israel has said it downed the drone on February 10 after it entered the country from Syria, and responded with a raid on what it said was the Iranian control systems for the craft in Syria.
publicly acknowledged hitting Iranian targets in Syria since the 2011 start of the civil war there.
During the strikes, one of Is down, believed to be the first loss of an Israeli plane in combat since 1982.
Tensions between the two countries had already been building in recent months, with Israel fearing that Tehran is trying to establish a permanent presence in Syria as part of an effort to become a greater regional power in the
The clashes this month have stoked fears of an escalated con even though both sides appear to want to avoid an open war for now, analysts say.