Israel's Vice
Prime Minister said Iran should be expelled from the United Nations after its new president said Israel
should be "wiped off the map," and Britain summoned an Iranian diplomat
Thursday to protest the remarks.
Italy on Thursday also condemned the words of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, telling the Iranian ambassador the comments were
"unacceptable" and that they confirm worries over the political
positions — and nuclear intentions — of Iran's new leadership.Shimon
Peres, Israel's vice prime minister and a Nobel peace laureate, said it
was "impossible to ignore" Ahmadinejad's comments.
"Since the United Nations was
established in 1945, there has never been a head of state that is a
U.N. member state that publicly called for the elimination of another
U.N. member state," Shimon Peres told Israel Radio.
In a speech Wednesday in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said "there is no doubt
that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma
(Israel) from the face of the Islamic world."
Ahmadinejad spoke during a conference called "The World without
Zionism."
His comments drew widespread international condemnations.
Britain's Foreign Office said Thursday it intended to summon Iran's
charge d'affaires to protest Ahmadinejad's remarks, calling them
"deeply disturbing and sickening."
Other world governments on Wednesday issued statements criticizing the
Iranian's remarks, including Britain, Canada and Germany. (all dancing to the NWO tune!)
In Madrid, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos summoned
Iran's ambassador to protest Ahmadinejad's comments. French Foreign
Minister Jean-Baptiste Mattei also condemned the remarks "with the
utmost firmness."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Israel protested
Iran's comments Wednesday at the United Nations but has not decided
whether to ask officially for Iran's removal.
Peres said he would discuss the
Iranian threat with Russia's visiting foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov,
on Thursday.
Israel accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons and wants the U.N. Security Council
to consider sanctions against the Tehran government. Iran says its
nuclear program is peaceful. (There is
absolutely no proof of this!)
Lavrov on Wednesday brushed off Israel's calls for Security Council
action, saying the matter is "too serious to be guided by politics."
Lavrov said that Russia will follow the lead of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, which is investigating the Iranian nuclear
program, and believes that talk of sanctions is premature.
Russia is one of the five
permanent members of the Security Council, with veto power over all
resolutions considered by the body.
Comment: ...and will
they find Iran's "Weapons of Mass Destruction"? Where have we heard
this
before?
THE BPP SAYS: NOT ANOTHER IRAQ! NO BRITISH DEATHS TO FIGHT
ISRAEL'S WARS!
