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Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, he referred to a recent meeting between the Iranian Foreign Minister and the head of Islamic Jihad.

Netanyahu : easing of sanctions against Iran ‘did not moderate its aggressive policies’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the international easing of the sanctions against Iran ‘’have not led Iran to moderate its international aggression,’’ adding that ‘’the complete opposite has occurred.’’
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, he referred to a recent meeting between the Iranian Foreign Minister and the head of Islamic Jihad and to reports that Iran ordered a number of warships to approach US maritime borders.
‘’Iran is continuing to supply terrorist organizations with deadly weapons, Iran continues to be complicit in massacres in Syria and to all this may be added the leader of Iran's crude and sharp attack against the US, alongside sending warships to the Atlantic Ocean,’’ Netanyahu said.
‘’ What is happening here is that the international community has reduced the sanctions on Iran and Iran is stepping up its international aggression. This is the real result of the steps up until now,’’ he stressed.
In another development, the US delegation attending a ceremony in honor of Tunisia’s new constitution walked out after Iran’s parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, called Israel a “cancer” of the region and accused the U.S. of devastating so-called Arab Spring revolutions.
“Even after the revolutions that happened in the region, the US and Israel tried to divert and devastate some of the revolutions so that Israel can benefit,” Larijani said according to Iran’s official Press TV.
The US embassy in Tunis said in a statement after the delegation left in protest.
It characterized Larijani’s remarks as “false accusations and inappropriate comments.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2012 said that Iran would help any nation or group that confronts the “cancer” Israel, and that Israel is a “cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut.”

by John Milner

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