Israeli PM Netanyahu: 75% of the Iranians want regime change
dandelion salad | 25.06.2009 14:21 | Anti-militarism | History | Repression | World
The selected quotes below from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Reza Pahlavi, the son of ousted Shah of Iran, provide further insight into the true colour of the "Green Revolution".
Shah of Iran's return from Rome after the CIA coup of 1953
[propaganda alert]
1) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: Iranians want regime change (23 June 2009)
2) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: The true nature of the Iranian regime has been unmasked (22 June 2009)
3) Son of former Shah of Iran: Iranian government is liable to lead to a nuclear holocaust (23 June 2009)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3735992,00.html excerpt from: Netanyahu: Iranians want regime change
by Roni Sofer, Ynetnews, 23 June 2009
“I believe more than 75% (of the people) there would have liked to replace the [Iranian] regime, and that percentage has recently risen”
[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Rome, 23 June 2009]
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http://medioriente.blog.rai.it/2009/06/22/exclusive-netanyahu-al-tg1-english-full-transcript-of-the-interview/ excerpt from: Exclusive: Netanyahu al Tg1 – English full transcript of the interview
(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with the TG1 news programme on Rai Uno, 22 June 2009)
Rai Uno: Mr. Prime Minister, [...] you should be quiet satisfied this days because hundreds thousands people in Iran are demonstrating against your worst enemy, Mr Ahmedinajad. Do you support their struggle?
Netanyahu: I think that people now can understand many of the things that we have been talking all this years. This is a regime that oppresses his people and this is a regime that threatens everyone with the denial of the holocaust, the call for the elimination of Israel, with the sponsorship of terrorism throughout the world and with the attempt to develop nuclear weapons which they can give to terrorists around the world. I think now that what is the true nature of this regime has been unmasked.
Rai Uno: You are talking about the nuclear program, in 1981 Israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear program in order to stop it, are you ready and in which circumstances to do the same with Iran?
Netanyahu: I think right now everybody understands that nuclear weapons in the hands of such a brutal regime could be very dangerous to the entire world. This is an international issue and I was very pleased to hear president Obama in my recent visit to Washington say that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran is a strategic threat to the United States and the peace of the world. Certainly it is to my country, but it is an international danger and it should be dealt by an international effort led by the United states. That’s our preference.
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excerpts from: Shah’s Son: Support Us
by Tzah Yoqed, Ma’ariv (via BBC Monitoring Newsfile), 23 June 2009
“Israel’s citizens should support the fight the Iranians are waging. [...] The continued existence of the current government in Iran is liable to lead to a nuclear holocaust.”
[Reza Pahlavi, son of former Shah of Iran, interview with Ma'ariv, 23 June 2009]
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related links:
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/israeli-diplomats-told-to-take-offensive-in-pr-war-against-iran/ Israeli diplomats told to take offensive in PR war against Iran (1 June 2009)
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/israel-holds-drill-simulating-all-out-war/ Israel holds drill simulating all-out war (21 May 2009)
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/israeli-prime-minister- we-will-not-allow-holocaust-deniers-to-carry-out-another-jewish-holocaust/ Netanyahu: We will not allow Holocaust deniers to carry out another Jewish Holocaust (20 April 2009)
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US Ambassador: Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is a great danger to Turkey
25.06.2009 21:27
possible routes for an Israeli bombardment of Iran, Sunday Times, 13 July 2008
1) Interview with US Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey (June 2009)
2) US President Barack Obama’s speech to Turkey’s parliament (April 2009)
3) CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (March 2009)
4) Petition by the European Mayors on whose territory US nuclear weapons are deployed (December 2007)
5) Percentage of population desiring Europe to be nuclear free (May 2006)
6) US Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey’s background (June 2008)
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NTV: Mr. Ahmedinejad won the elections for the second time in Iran. Do you think that it will affect the general approach of USA to Iran in region?
US Ambassador Jeffrey: […] What we’re very concerned about are, first of all, it’s pursuit of what we believe is a nuclear weapon system which is a great danger to everybody in this region not least Turkey. […]
[US Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey, interview with Turkey’s NTV channel, Ankara, 19 June 2009] [1]
note: for information on the background of US Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey, see item 6 of this compilation.
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“The peace of the region will also be advanced if Iran forgoes any nuclear weapons ambitions. Now, as I made clear in Prague yesterday, no one is served by the spread of nuclear weapons, least of all Turkey.”
[US President Barack Obama, speech to Turkey’s parliament, Ankara, 6 April 2009] [2]
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CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (March 2009) [3]
A military strike by Israel against Iranian Nuclear Facilities is possible and the optimum route would be along the Syrian-Turkish border then over a small portion of Iraq then into Iran, and back the same route. […]
If the Israeli aircraft do actually fly over Turkey that would constitute a clear Turkish – Israel and even U.S. conspiracy to attack Iran, so the Political risks could be high with Turkey.
Operationally, […] the risk from Turkey could be of medium level if Turkey deems it necessary to react militarily. […]
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“While our public is regularly provided alarming media reports of nuclear dangers in Iraq, North Korea or Iran, what is supposed to be a well-informed western audience is living in ignorance of the destructive power of thousands of potential Hiroshimas stored in their backyards.”
[Mayors for Peace petition launched on 6 December 2007 by the European Mayors on whose territory US nuclear weapons are deployed, namely:
Vedat Karadag (Incirlik, TURKEY), Stefano Del Cont (Aviano, ITALY), Anna Giulia Guarneri (Ghedi, ITALY), Theo Kelchtermans (Peer, BELGIUM), Dr. Joke W. Kersten (Uden, NETHERLANDS), Heinz Onnertz (Buechel, GERMANY) ] [4]
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Percentage of population desiring Europe to be nuclear free
(results of an opinion poll conducted in April-May 2006) [5] :
Yes No
Turkey 88.1% 2.5%
Italy 71.5% 9.3%
Germany 70.5% 26.8%
Belgium 64.6% 31.2%
Netherlands 63.3% 26.0%
UK 55.7% 39.5%
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US Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey’s background:
On June 5, [2008], The White House announced the nomination of the Deputy National Security Advisor James Franklin Jeffrey as US Ambassador to Turkey. In his earlier capacity as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, Mr Jeffrey had a prominent role on Iraq policy and was co-chairing the now defunct Iran-Syria Policy and Operations Group:
“The infamous Iran-Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) created in early 2006, integrated by officials from the White House, the [US] State Department, the CIA and the Treasury Department, had a mandate to destabilize Syria and Iran, and bring about ‘Regime Change’. ” [6]
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notes:
[1] Ambassador James Jeffrey’s Interview with Murat Akgun, NTV
website of the US Embassy in Ankara, 19 June 2009
[2] Remarks by President Barack Obama to the Turkish Parliament
The White House website, 6 April 2009
[3] Study on a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear development facilities
by Abdullah Toukan et al., Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 16 March 2009
[4] European mayors want withdrawal of US nukes from their territory marking INF [i.e. the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty] 20th anniversary
2020 Vision Campaign website, 6 December 2007
[5] Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Survey Results in Six European Countries
public opinion survey by Strategic Communications, Greenpeace International website, 25 May 2006
[6] Coming war against Iran: Increasing Anglo-American pressure on Turkey
by Cem Ertür, Dandelion Salad, 21 June 2008
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related links:
Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to its neighbors (April 2009)
CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (March 2009)
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25.06.2009 21:55
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Jerusalem Post website, 26 June 2009
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