Iran Nuclear Watch: Peres – “Ahmadinejad Will End Up Like Saddam”

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Israeli leader Shimon Perez (R) arrives at the Clinton Global Initiative forum in New York, September 15, 2005. Peres, responding to the latest verbal attack on the Jewish state by Iran’s president, said on Saturday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would end up like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.

Reuters: Peres says Ahmadinejad to end up like Saddam

Israeli veteran statesman Shimon Peres, responding to the latest verbal attack on the Jewish state by Iran’s president, said on Saturday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would end up like
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.

In a speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue on Friday, Ahmadinejad said: “The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm.”

Peres, in a statement quoted by Israel Radio, called Ahmadinejad’s comments a direct threat to Israel’s existence.

Israel over the past few months has been restrained inn their comments regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But, Iran should not underestimate the power andthe will of the Jewish state, particularly if their very existence is threatened.

The Quotes:

“His statements are reminiscent of those voiced by Saddam Hussein. Ahmadinejad will end up like Saddam Hussein,” he said, referring to the Iraqi leader ousted by a U.S. invasion in 2003 and on trial for the killings of 148 Shi’ites two decades ago.

“Ahmadinejad represents Satan, not God,” Peres said. “History has denounced the madmen and those who waved the sword.”

Peres, a former prime minister, is a senior member of acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s centrist Kadima party. He is expected to hold a top cabinet post in the government Olmert is forming, following Israel’s March 28 election.

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The Israeli position is clear.

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