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21:08, 18-Feb-2018
Iran's Zarif says Israel's 'myth of invincibility' has crumbled
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Iran's Foreign Minister said on Sunday the shooting down of an Israeli jet after it bombed an Iranian site in Syria had shattered Israel's "so-called invincibility."
"Israel uses aggression as a policy against its neighbors," Mohammad Javad Zarif told the Munich Security Conference in a reaction to a critical speech delivered earlier by Israel's prime minister.
He accused Israel of "mass reprisals against its neighbors and daily incursions into Syria, Lebanon."
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2018 in Munich, southern Germany. /VCG Photo
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2018 in Munich, southern Germany. /VCG Photo
"Once the Syrians have the guts to down one of its planes it's as if a disaster has happened," Zarif said.
He was responding to Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the conference hours before, in which the Israeli prime minister, holding a piece of what he said was an Iranian drone, accused Iran of trying to impose an "empire" across the Middle East.
Iran's top diplomat also slammed Netanyahu for staging a "cartoonish circus," claiming the speech "does not even deserve the dignity of a response."
"Our turmoil in this interconnected world will be everyone's turmoil," Zarif said, adding that "if Iran's interests are not secured, Iran will respond seriously."
In addition, he noted that no country can claim complete innocence in the arms race in the region.
Source(s): Reuters
,Xinhua News Agency