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Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt: “Today the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, Dr Ahmed Shaheed, will present a chilling account of torture and executions in Iran. This shines a light on an appalling situation of which the executions on 22 October are only the most recent reminder and against which the international community has repeatedly spoken out. I again call on Iran to engage fully with the international community on improving its human rights record, to impose a moratorium on its use of the death penalty, and to fully comply with Iran’s own laws and constitution.”
(source: FCO website)
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Today we engaged in exchanges against terrorist aggression that comes from our southern border in Gaza, but it actually comes from Iran and a whole terror network that is supporting these attacks. Iran supported Hezbollah’s terror attacks in Bulgaria; Iran is supporting terror attacks now against us in Gaza.”
(Source: Israeli PMO)
US President Barack Obama “I will stand with Israel if they are attacked. And this is the reason why, working with Israel, we have created the strongest military and intelligence cooperation between our two countries in history.”
The Republican Party’s nominee for President Mitt Romney, “When I’m President of the United States, we will stand with Israel. And if Israel is attacked, we have their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Iran used the talks and negotiations with the Five Powers to drag its feet and to gain time to advance its nuclear weapons program. In the last year alone, in the course of these talks, Iran has enriched thousands of kilograms of uranium in its nuclear program. And I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t continue in that same way if they open up talks with the US. Therefore, the international community, first of all, needs to set very clear demands to Iran: Halting uranium enrichment, removing all enriched uranium and dismantling the underground installation in Qom.”
(Source: Haaretz)
Vice-President of the European Parliament: “Any formal delegation from the European parliament, or indeed any national parliament in Europe, to Iran would be extremely counter-productive … whatever good intentions my colleagues may have…an official delegation’s visit would allow Iran to continue justifying not only human rights violation, but also repression, fundamentalism and terrorism”.
(source: European Jewish Press)
“I came with the message of peace and I came to confirm that we are really working for mutual trust and transparency… We are committed to all the agreements we signed with Israel and we’re also committed to the peace treaty with Israel.”
(Source: the Times of Israel)