Apparently the IAEA expects Israel to go quietly to its own destruction.
“Netanyahu blasts IAEA head for saying attack on Iran would be ‘illegal,’” JNS, March 5, 2023:
(March 5, 2023 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized as “unworthy” International Atomic Agency Director Raphael Grossi’s statement a day earlier that any attack Iran’s nuclear program would be illegal.
“Against which law?” said Netanyahu at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting. “Is Iran, which openly calls for our destruction, permitted to defend the destructive weapons that would slaughter us? Are we permitted to defend ourselves? It is clear that we are, and it is clear that we will do so.”
Rafael Grossi, he said, was “a worthy gentleman who said something unworthy.”
Noting that it was Purim eve, the Israeli premier said, “2,500 years ago an enemy arose in Persia who sought to destroy the Jews. They did not succeed then, neither will they succeed today.”
Following a meeting in Tehran on Saturday, Grossi said during a joint press conference with Mohammed Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, that “I think any attack, any military attack on a nuclear facility is outlaw[ed]—is out of the normative structures that we all abide by.”
The two-day meeting was a bid by the IAEA to convince Iran to cooperate as the U.N. nuclear watchdog seeks to monitor the country’s compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 nuclear deal it signed with world powers.
The IAEA director said there were “great expectations” in the talks, which had expressed “readiness” to cooperate.
According to a statement released by the parties on Saturday, the two sides agreed to work in a spirit of collaboration. Specifically, Grossi said that Tehran will allow the IAEA to reinstall some monitoring equipment that was removed last year.
Grossi’s visit comes in the wake of a quarterly IAEA report released on Feb. 28 that found Iran can produce enough weapons-grade (90% enriched) uranium for a nuclear weapon in 12 days using half of its existing stock of 60% enriched uranium….
Lisa Letto says
It seems that Ben is back and his resolve is stronger than ever. I hope that happens here too
Walter Sieruk says
In this jihadwatch article in part reads Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized as “unworthy” International Atomic Agency Director Raphael Grossi’s statement a day earlier that any attack Iran’s nuclear program would be illegal.
“Against which law?” said Netanyahu at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting. “Is Iran, which openly calls for our destruction, permitted to defend the destructive weapons that would slaughter us? Are we permitted to defend ourselves? It is clear that we are, and it is clear that we will do so.”
What complete and total nonsense was that statement by Grossi . For the reality is that Israel has every ethical and practical right stop That aggressive and hostile nuclear weapons construction by bombing those sites in Iran by other means. Such nuclear armed missile production and other deadly weapons manufacturing stations in that antagonistic and belligerent “mullah regime” of Iran that has intention of destroying the Jewish State of Israel.
Therefore, Israel is right and righteous and just a strike force in self-defense.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, wisely, had declared “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Walter Sieruk says
Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he declared “We permitted to defend ourselves? It is clear that we are, and it is clear that we will do so.”
Netanyahu is very wise and shows good judgement then he when he said that replied to fool statement by Raphael Grossi
For those demonically ambitious and sinister jihad –minded Muslims who have all the power in that hostile and menacing Islamic regime of Iran will continue in the unreasoning Islamic quest in the manufacture and construction of nuclear weapons. for the intention of destroying the Jewish State of Israel.
For the founder of that agressive and hostile regime of Iran ,Ayatollah Khomeini ,had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
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[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
Westman says
“Grossi’s visit comes in the wake of a quarterly IAEA report released on Feb. 28 that found Iran can produce enough weapons-grade (90% enriched) uranium for a nuclear weapon in 12 days using half of its existing stock of 60% enriched uranium ”
When is this falsehood about enrichment of uranium for a bomb must reach 90% going to stop?
“…HEU(highly enriched uranium > 20%) produced for weapons (“weapon-grade” uranium) is TYPICALLY enriched to 90 percent uranium-235 or greater, but ALL HEU can be used to make nuclear weapons.” – https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/weapon-materials-basics (Union Of Concerned Scientists)
Iran is already at 83%. https://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-watchdog-says-found-uranium-070031061.html
Figure it out – building the bomb and delivering it is Iran’s remaining challenge. If Iran intends to bomb Israel – the clock is ticking and the IAEA can’t and won’t stop it. Biden won’t stop it, his handlers will still be talking about “90%” when it goes off.
What choice does Israel have except to act against an existential threat?
Aum says
Bibi see it through.
Samalaga Elika says
Benjamin Netanyahu is back.
OLD GUY says
Somebody has to stand up against the islamic criminals in Iran.
James Lincoln says
With the fraudulent Biden administration in power, Netanyahu realizes that he will receive NO help from the United States in preventing a nuclear Iran.
somehistory says
There was a “law” of the Persians that said a law could not be undone. Once the king made a law, it was not possible to make it null and void.
But, after it was decided that the Jews would be slaughtered, planned and set in motion by the Persian official and bad guy, haman, ‘ the Jews were permitted to defend themselves against the slaughter,
It’s the same *country*….Persia/Iran….threatening the Jews today as in the days of Esther and her cousin, Mordecai.
It’s unlawful to construct weapons of mass destruction as iran is doing, just as it was unlawful of haman to construct a ‘law’ to slaughter the Jews in ancient times.
But self-defense is lawful.