29 Mar 2024
Tuesday 25 December 2018 - 11:40
Story Code : 332067

Spox says Zarifs remarks on Israel in line with Irans policies

MNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman has stressed that FM Zarifs response to a French magazine about Israels annihilation is exactly in line with Irans policies set according to the Leaders and Imam Khomeinis stance.

Bahram Ghasemi on Monday censured some media outlets for twisting the foreign ministers remarks about Israel, stressing that Zarifs response to a trick question by French weekly news magazine Le Point did not run counter to Irans anti-Israel policies.

What Zarif said in his interview with Le Point about the Zionist regimes annihilation was the repeat and exact utterance of the remarks by Imam Khomeini and Leader, who said that Israel would cease to exist in 25 years, Ghasemi explained.

He went on to add, in his response to the trick question by the French journalist, Dr. Zarif, instead of taking on a defensive stance, pointed to the differences between Netanyahus remarks and Irans position.

Ghasemi was referring to Zarifs response in which he noted the Israeli premiers remarks at the regimes secretive Dimona nuclear weapons facility, from where he threatened Iran with a nuclear attack.

Zarif said Netanyahu did not say Iran must be destroyed, rather he said we will destroy Iran, Ghasemi explained. Therefore, Zarif established the difference in Irans realistic outlook and the aggressive outlook of the Zionist regime, and when the journalist tried once again to push Zarif into a defensive stance by mentioning Mr. Ahmadinejad, Zarif followed the same line of logic that we have never said that Iran would destroy Israel, that what Mr. Ahmadinejad said was the repeat of Imam Khomeinis remark that Israels policies and behaviors will ultimately lead to its destruction.

Ghasemi further stressed that Zarifs remarks did not run counter to Irans policies.

On Dec. 18, Foreign Minister Zarif had reacted to Netanyahus anti-Iran threats by writing in a tweet that First, Netanyahu stands next to nuclear BOMB factory and threatens Iran with annihilation. Now, he openly boasts about his OFFENSIVE" missiles that can reach anywhere.

Following the threat, Tehran wrote to the United Nations, calling on the world body to condemn Israel and bring the regimes atomic weapons program under its supervision.
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