Zarif: Israel’s ‘myth of invincibility’ has crumbled
Iran’s Foreign Minister said on Sunday the shooting down of an Israeli jet after it bombed a military site in Syria had shattered Israel’s “so-called invincibility”, reacting to a speech delivered earlier by Israel’s premier.
Mohammad Javad Zarif AFP
“Israel uses aggression as a policy against its neighbors,” Mohammad Javad Zarif told the Munich Security Conference, accusing Israel of “mass reprisals against its neighbors and daily incursions into Syria, Lebanon.”
“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.
“What has happened in the past several days is the so-called invincibility (of Israel) has crumbled,” Zarif said of Netanyahu’s remarks, which followed the Feb. 10 downing of an Israeli F-16 jet.
Bibi’s ‘cartoonish circus’
Zarif also slammed Netanyahu for staging the “cartoonish circus” by showing the fragment at the event.
“You were the audience for a cartoonish circus just this morning which does not even deserve the dignity of a response,” the top said.
He said Israel was trying “to create these cartoonish images to blame others for its own strategic blunders, or maybe to evade the domestic crisis they’re facing.
AFP