Iran on Monday vowed to defend its nuclear program and condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that Jerusalem “can and will finish the job” against Tehran’s “axis of terror,” saying that Israel and the US “cannot do a damn thing.”
Netanyahu made the comment at a joint press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday with visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said Iran was “behind every terrorist group” in the region and that a nuclear Iran could “never happen.”
Responding to Netanyahu, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that “threatening others is both a gross violation of international law and the United Nations charter.” “When it comes to a country like Iran, [Israel and the US] cannot do a damn thing,” he added. “You cannot threaten Iran on one hand and claim to support dialogue on the other hand,” Baghaei said according to state media. (Read Moree)