Iranian President: Israel 'Nothing More Than A Mosquito' To Iran -- CNN(CNN) -- Ahead of upcoming nuclear talks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad downplayed the threat Israel poses to Iran, comparing it to an annoying bug.
"Israel is nothing more than a mosquito which cannot see the broad horizon of the Iranian nation," he said Saturday in northeastern Iran's Khorassan province, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Ahmadinejad said "regional states" were being duped into buying billions in arms from "arrogant and imperial powers," driven in part by all the talk surrounding a potential war involving Iran and Israel, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Such military purchases, he said, are unnecessary because there is no war on the horizon between those two nations.
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My Comment: More to the point .... many in Iran now believe that Israel is isolated and vulnerable to outside pressures. What's my take .... this is a grave mistake when one looks at the history of Israel on how they have handled threats in the past.