Israel's new prime minister calls Iranian president-elect "executioner"
Israel is hosting the first government meeting under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. A few days ago, he was approved by the country's new prime minister with a minimal majority of votes, replacing Benjamin Netanyahu in this post. At the first meeting, Bennett raised the topic of the so-called Iranian "nuclear deal". Now the parties are discussing the possibility of renewing the previously reached agreements, from which the United States of America withdrew.
Bennett commented on Ibrahimi Raisi's victory in the presidential elections in Iran, who will officially take office on August 3. About 62% of Iranian voters from among those who came to the polling stations voted for Raisi. At the same time, there is a record low turnout for recent years. It was 48,8%. For comparison - in the last elections the turnout was about 73%.
Ibrahim Raisi is 60 years old. He is a former prosecutor of Tehran, ex-head of the General Inspectorate of Iran.
Bennett, commenting on the victory in the elections in Iran, an ultra-conservative politician, said that "the world powers should wake up and look at what is happening in Iran." It is noted that a man who is under American sanctions for "involvement in the mass executions of political prisoners in 1988 - after the Iran-Iraq war" became president.
Bennett:
Maybe the outcome of these elections will be a reason for the international community to look differently at the nuclear deal with Iran. Of all the people that could be chosen, the executioner was chosen.
This statement by the newly minted Israeli prime minister came against the backdrop of the resumption of "indirect" negotiations between Iran and other parties to the agreement in Vienna today.
Naftali Bennett:
This is a killer. Executioners mode shouldn't get weapon mass destruction, which will allow him to kill not thousands, but millions of people.
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