Israel Furious that Nuclear Talks Continue after Iranian Commander Says Destroying Israel is ‘Non-Negotiable’
As world powers rushed to conclude a framework nuclear deal with Iran, an Iranian military leader declared that destroying Israel was “non-negotiable.”
On Tuesday, the day of the original deadline for a framework agreement in the nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, declared that “erasing Israel off the map” was “non-negotiable,” according to an Israel Radio report.
“The Zionists should know that the next war won’t be confined to the present borders and the Mujahedeen will push them back,” he said in August 2014. At the time, the Islamic Republic vowed to “accelerate” its re-arming of Arabs in
the Palestinian Authority-administered areas of Judea and Samaria.
Iran “will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any
response,” General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh stated in August on Sepah News, the official website
of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), just a day after claiming that Iran had shot
down an Israeli spy drone flying over its air space.
Iran is a major supplier of weapons to Hamas as well, including Iranian-made Fajr rockets and
several dozen Syrian-produced M-302 rockets, based on Iranian technology, which have the
range to strike deep inside Israel. In July, one of these rockets flew over 100 kilometers to hit
Hadera, a town near the northern city of Haifa.
Furious Netanyahu: Insist on Better Iran
Deal
“Yesterday, an Iranian general brazenly
declared, and I quote, ‘Israel’s destruction
is non-negotiable’, but evidently, giving Iran’s
murderous regime a clear path to the bomb
is negotiable,” Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu stated in fury on Wednesday.
“This is unconscionable. I agree with those
who have said that Iran’s claim that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes doesn’t
square with Iran’s insistence on keeping underground nuclear facilities, advanced centrifuges
and a heavy water reactor. Nor does it square with Iran’s insistence on developing ICBMs and
its refusal to come clean with the IAEA on its past weaponization efforts. At the same time, Iran
is accelerating its campaign of terror, subjugation and conquest throughout the region, most
recently in Yemen.
“The concessions offered to Iran in Lausanne would ensure a bad deal that would endanger
Israel, the Middle East and the peace of the world,” the Israeli leader continued. “Now is the
time for the international community to insist on a better deal. A better deal would significantly
roll back Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. A better deal would link the eventual lifting of the
restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program to a change in Iran’s behavior. Iran must stop its
aggression in the region, stop its terrorism throughout the world and stop its threats to
annihilate Israel. That should be non-negotiable, and that’s the deal that the world powers
must insist upon.
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