Iranian Regime is Doomed, Just Like Purim Villains 2,500 Years Ago, Warns Netanyahu

In a message to Iran, which threatens to destroy the Jewish state, Netanyahu invoked the story of Purim and the downfall of the wicked Haman, who sought the Jewish nation’s destruction.

By Aryeh Savir, TPS 

Speaking on Tuesday at the state memorial ceremony for Zionist hero Yosef Trumpeldor and his comrades, who fell in 1920 in defense of the Jewish settlement of Tel Hai in the north, Netanyahu declared: “On the eve of [the festival of] Purim, I would like to say to those who seek our lives, Iran and its proxies in the Middle East: 2,500 years ago, another Persian villain tried to destroy the Jewish people and just as he failed then, so too will you fail today. We will not allow your extremist and aggressive regime to attain nuclear weapons.”

Purim, celebrated this year on Thursday through Sunday, marks the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who planned to annihilate the Jewish People and failed, as recounted in the Book of Esther.

“We will not allow your extremist and aggressive regime to acquire nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu stated. “We did not make the journey of generations through thousands of years back to the Land of Israel, to allow the hallucinatory regime of the ayatollahs to end the story of the resurrection of the Jewish people.”

Rejecting a renewed agreement with Iran, Netanyahu underscored that Israel “does not rely on any agreement with an extremist regime like yours. We have already seen the nature of agreements with extremist regimes like yours, in the past century and also in this century, with the North Korean government. With an agreement and without an agreement – we will do everything so that you do not arm yourself with nuclear weapons.”

Netanyahu’s cautionary remarks came just hours after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran will continue its 20% enrichment of uranium and increase enrichment up to 60 percent, “based on the country’s needs.”

“That clown of the global Zionism [Netanyahu] is saying that he will not allow Iran to attain nuclear weapons; however, it should be said that if the Islamic Republic had decided to attain [an] atomic bomb, the Zionists and powers bigger than them could not have been able to prevent it,” he said.

In the meantime, the spokesman for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Keivan Khosravi, announced on Monday that the country will end the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the UN nuclear watchdog’s inspections beyond the safeguards agreement on February 23.

Director-General of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi was informed of Iran’s move to stop the inspections during his visit to Tehran.

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