Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, stated during an interview with an Egyptian newspaper, on Sunday, that Israel owns 300 nuclear missiles, the Maan News Agency reported.
F-35 Jet. Image from maannews.net
"Even
though Israel owns 300 nuclear missiles, the fact wouldn't benefit it;
Israel is going to be wiped off the map," Ahmadinejad to the Egyptian
Al-Akhbar Newspaper.
He added that the US and the West are concerned about Iran because it is
more sophisticated and developed than they are, denying Iran's claimed
intention of developing weapons of mass destruction, and confirming that
Israel is ongoing with developing nuclear heads.
Meanwhile, Russia warned of what it has described as "destructive
consequences" that could result should Iran be attacked.
"Attacking Iran would be a destructive mistake that may deepen the
crisis in the region," the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei
Lavrov, stated.
In 2006, Virginia Tilley, Professor of political science explained:
"In his October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word 'map' or
the term 'wiped off.' According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and
even right-wing services like MEMRI, what he actually said was 'this regime
that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'
"In this speech to an annual anti-Zionist conference, Mr. Ahmadinejad was
being prophetic, not threatening. He was citing Imam Khomeini, who said this
line in the 1980s-a period when Israel was actually selling arms to Iran, so
apparently it was not viewed as so ghastly then.
"Mr. Ahmadinejad had just reminded his audience that the Shah's regime,
the Soviet Union, and Saddam Hussein had all seemed enormously powerful and
immovable, yet the first two had vanished almost beyond recall and the third
now languished in prison.
"So, too, the 'occupying regime' in Jerusalem would someday be gone. His
message was, in essence: 'This too shall pass.'".
What has yet to pass are international atomic agency inspectors into Israel's
WMD facility!
In 2005, Vanunu told me:
"Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic
weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was
not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The
Prime Minister said, "The nuclear reactor is only for peace.'.
"Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding
that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
"The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans
gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay
their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there,
almost twenty years ago. Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors
underground.
"In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a
nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez
Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the
Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.
"When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two
senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the
Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways.
From 1963 to '69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that
hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
"Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result,
Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today,
they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year." [2]
1. http://www.imemc.org/article/62459
2. BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010