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Wednesday 17 July 2013 - 13:26
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Iran's Rouhani brushes off Netanyahu's threat

[caption id="attachment_33439" align="alignright" width="210"] Iran president-elect Hassan Rohani talks to domestic and foreign reporters in his first press conference following June 14 presidential poll, in Tehran, June 17, 2013.[/caption]
TEHRAN: Iran's president-electHassan Rouhanihas brushed off threats of military action against the Islamic republic by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying such warnings only made him "laugh", media reported Wednesday.
"When some (theUnited Statesand Israel) say that all options are on the table and when a miserable regional country (Israel) says such things, it makes you laugh," Rouhani said in an address to Iran-Iraq war veterans, according to Iranian media reports.

"Who are the Zionists to threaten us?" the moderate cleric said, insisting that warnings of an Iranian retaliation had stoppedIsraelfrom carrying out its threats to launch strikes on Iran.

Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his threat to take unilateral military action to halt Iran's nuclear programme, disparagingly referring to Rouhani as "a wolf in sheep's clothing" who would "smile and build a bomb".

"We're closer than the United States. We're more vulnerable. And therefore, we'll have to address this question of how to stop Iran, perhaps before the United States does," Netanyahu said on CBS News's "Face the Nation."

"They're edging up to the red line. They haven't crossed it yet," the Israeli premier said, referring to the point at whichIranwould be able to make its first nuclear weapon.

"They're getting closer and closer to the bomb. And they have to be told in no uncertain terms that that will not be allowed to happen."

Israel is the Middle East's sole but undeclared nuclear power.

Iran for years has been at loggerheads with world powers over its nuclear drive, which Western nations and Israel believe is aimed at developing an atomic weapons capability. Tehran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.

Rouhani will succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's president on August 3.

By The Daily Star

 

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Adewale
Isreal can not, would not and dare not attack a country with a formidable military strength and it's capable of destructive reprisal attack. Isreal is not unaware of what Iran is capable of, and therefore will not possibly be willing to invite hell on herself