Israeli official: Iran wants to control Mideast while supporting Syria massacre
Responding to remarks by Iran's parliamentary speaker that western military intervention in Syria would 'bury' Israel, the official asks: Imagine what Iran would do if it had nuclear weapons.
The bodies of people whom
anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces
lie on the ground in Houla, near Homs May 26, 2012.
Photo by Reuters
A senior
Israeli official said on Thursday that Iran is supporting mass-murder in
Syria, and trying to control the Mideast region, even though it does
not yet have nuclear capabilities.
The official was responding to remarks by Iran's parliamentary speaker
Ali Larijani on Wednesday, who warned that a western military
intervention in war-torn Syria to depose President Bashar Assad will
result in a regional upheaval that would undoubtedly engulf Israel.
"Iran is trying to manage the Middle East at the same time as it is
supporting mass murder in Syria, all this is happening without nuclear
capability. Imagine what would happen if the Iranian's would have
nuclear weapons," the official said.
On Wednesday, in what seemed to be an explicit threat against the
consequences that military action could have on Israel, Larijani said
that violence from Syria "will spread into Palestine and the ashes of
such flame will definitely bury the Zionist regime."
Larijani spoke following a massacre in the Syrian city of Houla, which garnered severe criticism in the West.
Larijani's comments came after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
condemned civilian deaths in the Syrian crisis, adding, however that the
West and certain Arab countries were interfering in Syria and sending
weapons to help bring down the government.
"We cannot trust these people because their objective is to bring down Assad," he said.
Russia said on Wednesday that the UN Security Council should not
consider new measures to resolve the crisis in Syria at this point and
signaled it would block any effort to authorize military intervention,
the Interfax news agency reported.
The U.S. ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, said on on Wednesday that it
is unlikely that the Assad regime will halt the violence and follow the
UN-led peace plan to resolve the crisis in the country. She told MSNBC
that Iran is actively supporting Syria, and added that the conflict in
Syria is of "a different character with much broader regional
implications should it continue to spin out of control.”
The warnings came after the French President Francois Hollande said
military intervention was not ruled out provided it was backed by the
Security Council, and Germany said it would push for "new engagement" by
the council on Syria.
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