Netanyahu concerned about Iran growing influence: Iran’s Larijani
The Iranian Parliament (Majlis) speaker says the Israeli prime minister’s speech at the US Congress shows that the Tel Aviv regime is concerned about its waning power.
“His very speech shows the regime’s frustration and concern, and it's no surprise that it is concerned because the regime’s power has been on the decline day by day over the past three decades,” Ali Larijani said during an open session of Majlis on Wednesday.
Netanyahu’s speech proved that the Israeli regime’s main concern is not the Iranian nuclear program, but the Islamic Revolution’s growing influence in the Middle East, Larijani said.
He also described the hawkish Israeli premier’s speech as a “political show,” adding that the US Congress is serving the interests of a “tin-pot regime.”
The Iranian official also warned against any military action against the Islamic Republic, saying Iran will give a crushing response to any act of aggression against the country.
In a speech to the US Congress on Tuesday, Netanyahu depicted Iran as a "threat to the entire world” and called on Washington not to negotiate a “very bad deal” with Tehran over its nuclear program.
"We've been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well this is a bad deal, a very bad deal, We're better off without it," he said.
He claimed that a final nuclear agreement with Iran will change the Middle East for the worst as “not a single [Iranian] nuclear facility would be demolished.”
Speaking a day earlier at a conference in Washington hosted by the largest US pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, Netanyahu warned against a nuclear agreement with Iran and said that a potential deal with Tehran could “threaten the survival of Israel."
The latest round of nuclear talks between Iranian and US delegations came to an end in the Swiss city of Montreux on Tuesday.
Iran and the P5+1 group - Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – are negotiating to narrow their differences over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program ahead of a July 1 deadline.
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