Netanyahu’s UN Speech Aimed at ‘Creating Pretexts for Attacks’ – Scholar

• Netanyahu’s UN Speech Aimed at ‘Creating Pretexts for Attacks’ – Scholar
  by https://sputniknews.com/
  The Iranian foreign minister called Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims of a secret nuclear facility in Iran “an arts and crafts show.” In a tweet published on Thursday, Mr. Zarif noted that Israel was the only regime in the Middle East possessing a secret and undeclared nuclear weapons program, including an actual atomic arsenal.
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  Radio Sputnik discussed Netanyahu’s speech at the UN with Tim Anderson, an expert in international politics at the University of Sydney.
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  Sputnik: Iran says that Netanyahu’s claims cannot be taken into account seriously. What judgment do you have regarding Israeli PM’s UN speech? Do his arguments stand up to scrutiny?
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  Tim Anderson: He is a dangerous man and he is creating, like his mentor in the US, pretexts, which were a bit of credibility, pretexts that he will use and has used for almost arbitrary attacks.
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  He’s threatened to attack, for example, his Iranian opponents in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon; he’s making very serious threats and this is the pretext, the pretext of some preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program.
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  Sputnik: Do you think that he was believed? How seriously were his remark taken and by whom?
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  Tim Anderson: It’s difficult to say because in a sense political alliances mean more than beliefs these days. Unfortunately, there’s a great indulgence of Israel in Russia, there’s a special relationship there.
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  Of course, we know that many of the European states are committed; so whatever they might believe, how they react to this sort of new pretext to war, unfortunately, hangs more on the traditional alliances and actually whether it’s a convincing argument.
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