Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
on Sunday warned that Israel could act against Iran.
He said this in reaction to
border incidents in Syria which brought the Middle East foes closer to direct
confrontation.
In his first address to the
annual Munich Security Conference, which draws security and defence officials
and diplomats from across Europe and the United States, Netanyahu held up an
image of what he said was an Iranian drone that flew into Israeli airspace this
month.
“Israel will not allow the regime
to put a noose of terror around our neck,” he stated.
“We will act if necessary not
just against Iran’s proxies but against Iran itself.”
During a chat with journalists,
Netanyahu said: “The fact that we have this newfound relationship with the Arab
countries; something that I would not have imagined in my lifetime. This is not
what they call a spin.
“This is real, it’s deep, it’s
broad: it doesn’t necessarily cross the threshold of a formal peace, and I
doubt that would happen until we get some formal progress with the Palestinians
– so the two are linked”.
Reacting, Iran’s Foreign
Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called Netanyahu’s presentation “a cartoonish
circus, which does not even deserve a response”.
“What has happened in the past
several days is the so-called invincibility (of Israel) has crumbled,” Zarif,
said while addressing a news conference after Netanyahu’s remarks.
“Once the Syrians have the guts
to down one of its planes it’s as if a disaster has happened,” Zarif said,
accusing Israel of using “aggression as a policy against its neighbours” by
regularly carrying out incursions into Syria and Lebanon.
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