"The recent developments
in Iran are the result of a mad regime that fires at its civilians on the street," Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday during an official visit to Canada.
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"The danger of such a regime being in possession of nuclear arms must be clear to everyone," said the FM. "The developments in Iran demand a decisive response from the international community; first of all, an urgent UN Security Council meeting must be called."
Mousavi supporters rally in Tehran (Photo: Reuters)
While in Ottawa, Lieberman
met with his Canadian counterpart Lawrence Cannon and other ministers. The FM told the senior Canadian officials that Israel greatly appreciates Canada's firm stance against the anti-Israel agenda of last April's UN conference
in Geneva, which was dubbed "Durban II".
On Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
peaceful relations between Israel and Iran would be possible if new leadership took power in Tehran.
"There is no conflict between the Iranian people and the people of Israel and under a different regime the friendly relations that prevailed in the past could be restored," Netanyahu told German daily Bild.
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