Alwaght- Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed Israeli regime’s prime minister’s anti-Iran accusations during the Munich Security Conference as ‘cartoonish circus’, saying his remarks are not even worth a response.
"You were the audience for a cartoonish circus just this morning which does not even deserve the dignity of a response,” Zarif said while addressing the annual conference in the German city on Sunday.
Addressing participants at the Munich Security Conference earlier on Sunday, Israeli regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed what he called a piece of an Iranian drone, which the regime’s military claims to have downed more than a week ago, and said the Tel Aviv regime could “act” directly against Iran.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian foreign minister said Syria's shooting down of the Israeli jet had shattered Israel's "so-called invincibility."
"What has happened in the past several days is that the so-called invincibility (of Israel) has crumbled," Zarif said.
"Israel uses aggression as a policy against its neighbors," he added, condemning the Israeli regime for "mass reprisals against its neighbors and daily incursions into Syria, Lebanon."
The Iranian top diplomat then commended remarks by UN Secretary General António Guterres, who endorsed Iran's proposed approach to regional matters, stressing that “unless there is a collective effort to bring inclusive peace and security to the Persian Gulf region, we will be engulfed in turmoil and potentially far worse for generations to come.”
“For too long, military powers have had multiple strategies to win wars. And for too long, they have ignored any strategy to win the peace. For too long, major powers and their regional allies have made the wrong choices in our region and then have blamed others, particularly Iran, for the consequences of their own short-sighted and trigger-happy strategic blunders,” Zarif said.
Noting that the US and its regional allies are suffering from the natural consequences of their own wrong choices, the Iranian foreign minister said, “They use this and other fora to revive the hysteria on Iran’s foreign policy and obscure its reality.”
“In a quest to create our strong region, we need to be realistic and accept our differences…. The nuclear deal was an example of such non-zero-sum thinking," he added, referring to the landmark nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in 2015.
"Recognizing differences but also recognizing a common goal, and maintaining respect for the interests of all parties guided the difficult negotiations that led to the successful conclusion of the JCPOA,” Zarif pointed out.
