Peres on Iran: Similar thing happened with Hitler
President issues special statement warning against Iran's efforts to develop nuclear arms, says history has proven it may become too late to prevent bloodshed
"The world must open its eyes before it is too late," President Shimon Peres said Thursday in reference to the Iranian nuclear threat.
"Many times in history it was too late to prevent horrors and bloodshed, for instance with Stalin and Hitler. We are nearing a similar turn of events with Ahmadinejad. We must not ignore Iran's aspiration to become a religious, extremist Persian empire that would rule the entire Mideast," Peres said in a special statement issued by his office.
"The Iranian leader is publicly calling for Israel's destruction and investing billions of dollars in developing long-range missiles with the clear intent of loading them with nuclear warheads," the president stressed.
Referring to Russia President Vladimir Putin's recent support of Iran, Peres said that "even if Putin says he's not sure that Iran is developing nuclear power for military purposes, everybody knows what Iran's true intentions are, and many intelligence branches around the world have concrete proof indicating that Iran is manufacturing nuclear arms for war and killing."
