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Iran’s FM: Netanyahu using ‘bigoted’ lies and ‘fake history’

March 13, 2017 at 3:20 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not “distort the past”, Iran’s foreign minister said in response to the Israeli official’s claims that Iran had been trying to “destroy the Jewish people” for some 2,500 years,

Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Netanyahu of selling “bigoted” lies against Iran while resorting to “fake history and falsifying Torah”, following the Israeli prime minister’s remarks last week.

“To sell bigoted lies against a nation which has saved Jews three times, Netanyahu resorting to fake history and falsifying Torah. Force of habit. Once again Benjamin Netanyahu not only distorts the realities of today, but also distorts the past — including Jewish scripture. It is truly regrettable that bigotry gets to the point of making allegations against an entire nation which has saved Jews three times in its history,” Zarif said in a message posted on his official Twitter account yesterday.

The remarks by the Iranian minister came after Netanyahu, during a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, claimed that Iran had been trying to “destroy the Jewish people” for some 2,500 years.

Earlier yesterday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that Netanyahu had both misreported Iran’s pre-Islam history and inverted facts. “Apparently, he is neither acquainted with history, nor has he read the Torah,” said Larijani.