28 Mar 2024
Monday 2 March 2015 - 09:23
Story Code : 153649

Rouhani's adviser: Netanyahu's speech will benefit Iran

[caption id="attachment_92162" align="alignright" width="204"]A senior policy adviser to Iranian President, Hamid Aboutalebi A senior policy adviser to Iranian President, Hamid Aboutalebi[/caption]

Senior adviser to Iran's president predicts that Netanyahu "warrior discourse" will ultimately strengthen Iran.

A senior policy adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani predicted on Sunday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress will "benefit" Tehran,i24newsreported.

The official, Hamid Aboutalebi, reportedly wrote on his Twitter account that what he described as Netanyahu's "warrior discourse" will strengthen the "gaps" between Democrats and Republicans, as well as those betweenWashingtonand Israel.

Aboutalebi claimed that Netanyahus visit to the United States will deepen the rift between European nations andWashingtonin addition tocausingdivisionswithin Israeli society between peace advocates andbackersof a military intervention in Iran.

The comments come a day after Irans Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif,also reactedto Netanyahus speech and said that Netanyahus scaremongering wont stop the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 world powers from reaching a nuclear deal.

Through scaremongering, falsification, propaganda and creating a false atmosphere even inside other countries, [Israel] is attempting to prevent peace, Zarif said. I believe that these attempts are in vain and should not impede reaching a [nuclear] agreement, he said, in reference to Netanyahus planned speech to Congress Tuesday.

Netanyahu is opposed to any solution and [his planned speech to Congress] signifies his attempts to use an untrue issue and a fabricated crisis to cover up realities in our region, including the occupation [and] suppression of the Palestinian people, violation of rights of Palestinians and continuation of invasive policies, Zarif added.

The speech has raised tensions between Israel and the United States, as theWhite House announcedthat neither President Barack Obama nor Secretaryof StateJohn Kerry would meet with Netanyahu while he is inWashington, citing the proximity of his visit to the elections in Israel.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki has indicated that Kerry willprobably be out of townduring Netanyahus speech, and Vice President Joe Bidenhas also announcedthat he will be travellingabroadand would not be attending the speech.

By Arutz Sheva
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