Netanyahu Favors ISIL over Iran

Local Editor

"Israel's" Prime minister has claimed that a nuclear Iran would pose a far greater threat than the armed ISIL group, which he compared to the Palestinian group Hamas.

Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu described Iran, ISIL and Hamas as part of a single team.

"The Nazis believed in a master race, the militants believe in a master faith," Netanyahu claimed. "They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith."

"Make no mistake, [ISIL] must be defeated," Netanyahu added. "But to defeat [ISIL] and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war."

He also said that ISIL and Hamas are "branches of the same poisonous tree".
In his speech, Netanyahu said "Iran's nuclear military capabilities must be fully dismantled" adding that the goal of a charm offensive by Iran's "smooth talking president and foreign minister" was to get international sanctions lifted "and remove the obstacles to Iran's path to the bomb".

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team