Iran calls Israeli Premier Netanyahu's drone claim a "circus"
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday slammed Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu for staging a "cartoonish circus" after the premier brandished what he said was a piece of an Iranian drone shot down by Israel.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 18 February 2018
- Modified Date: 03:13 | 18 February 2018
Iran's foreign minister is dismissing as a "cartoonish circus" accusations by Israel's prime minister that his country has become increasingly aggressive and sent a drone into Israeli airspace.
Mohammad Javad Zarif took the stage Sunday at the Munich Security Conference a few hours after Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu held up what he said was a fragment of the drone and challenged Zarif to recognize it.
Zarif told the gathering: "You were the audience for a cartoonish circus just this morning which does not even deserve the dignity of a response."
Zarif denounced what he said were Israel's "almost daily illegal incursions into Syrian airspace." He said Israel was trying "to create these cartoonish images to blame others for its own strategic blunders, or maybe to evade the domestic crisis they're facing."