Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, assailed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday, saying that the speech he delivered was “full of lies.”
“Iran-phobia runs rampant at UN,” Takht-Ravanchi tweeted. “The Israeli regime PM’s speech was full of lies on Iran. That regime is in no position to discuss our peaceful program when it has hundreds of nuclear warheads. And his silence on Palestine illustrates a determination to deprive Palestinian rights.”
“Iran is violating the IAEA’s safeguard agreements,” he said. ” And it’s getting away with it. They harass inspectors and sabotage their investigations, and they’re getting away with it. They enrich uranium to the level of 60 percent, which is one step short of weapons-grade material, and they’re getting away with it. Evidence which clearly proves Iran’s intentions for nuclear weapons in secret sites in Turquzabad, Teheran & Marivan is ignored.”
“Israel doesn’t have that privilege,” Bennett went on. “We will not tire. We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”
However, he added: “Iran is much weaker, much more vulnerable than it seems. Its economy is sinking; its regime is rotten and divorced from the younger generation; its corrupt government fails to even bring water to large parts of the country.”
“The weaker they are, the more extreme they go. If we put our heads to it, if we’re serious about stopping it, if we use all our resourcefulness, we can prevail. And that’s what we’re going to do,” he concluded.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.