NETANYAHU: IRAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN 80% OF ISRAEL’S SECURITY CONCERNS

NETANYAHU: IRAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN 80% OF ISRAEL’S SECURITY CONCERNS

BYHERB KEINON

 MARCH 6, 2017 11:50

According to foreign reports, Israel has acted on a number of occasions to disrupt arms shipments from Iran intended for Hezbollah.

Iran is responsible for more than 80% of Israel's security problems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, quoting one of the country's security agencies.Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, quoting one of the country's security agencies.

“We are not deterred, and are also building out strength,” he said at a ceremony in the Foreign Ministry marking 25 years to the bombing of the embassy in Buenos Aires. “Since the attack in Argentina, Israel has gotten much stronger.”

Netanyahu said that it was clear from the very beginning that Iran was behind that bombing, which killed 29 people, including Israeli diplomats, and injured 250 more.

“Iran initiated and planned it, and Hezbollah, which does what it [Iran] says, carried it out,” he said.
That alliance will be foremost on Netanyahu's mind when he travels to Russia on Thursday. The premier has made clear in recent weeks that Jerusalem is very concerned that Iran is increasingly establishing a permanent foothold in Syria, and he will discuss this – and the close Iranian-Hezbollah alliance – when he meets in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We will strongly oppose arming Hezbollah with dangerous weapons,” Netanyahu said. “Our red-lines are thick and clear, and we do not hesitate to act in order to preserve them.”

According to foreign reports, Israel has acted on a number of occasions to disrupt arms shipments from Iran intended for Hezbollah.

If the 1992 bombing wasn't enough proof of the reach of Iran's terrorist tentacles, the blast two years later at the AMIA building in Buenos Aires – where 87 people were killed and 100 injured – was another indication of the Islamic republic's malicious designs, Netanyahu said.

“Iran is the greatest generator of terrorism in the world,” Netanyahu said, adding there is a need to fight this terrorism which is just one of of Iran's arms of aggression. He said the other arms included its desire for nuclear arms, its development of ballistic missiles, and its sowing of instability through the Middle East.

In addition, he said, the Iranian regime “continue to threaten Israel with destruction.”

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