Spain, France, and Israel slam hateful Ahmadinejad comments
June 5, 2007 by Alexander
Spain will summon Iran’s ambassador to condemn the “unacceptable” anti-Israeli outburst made by Iran’s president over the weekend. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Monday:
“It is unacceptable that a president of the international community would pronounce those words” [source]
France’s foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner also criticized Ahmadinejad:
“[Iran’s] vocation in both the Israel-Palestinian conflict and in relations between Israel and Lebanon cannot be used as a catalyst for doubt in Israel’s right to exist” [source]
Israels Foreign Ministry topped the cake with:
“Reasonable people of all faiths must unite in condemning this sort of extremist, hateful language” [source]
This brings to mind comments made by John Bolton in December 2006 about the threat of Ahmadinejad:
“How is it that responsible policy makers of this time didn’t see this coming, how is it that they are missing these clear signals… I think that the notion of taking Ahmadinejad seriously, and taking seriously that he means what he says and intends to have the capabilities of carrying through on it is critical.” [view full video here]
