TEHRAN – The mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations has said that the Zionist regime has been promoting Iranophobia in the world with the aim of deflecting attention from its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people. 

 

The Iranian mission made the remarks in an article published on the February 22 edition of the Wall Street Journal in response to the article written by Alan M. Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard, entitled “Warning Iran Against Hitting ‘Soft’ American Targets,” which was published on the February 13 edition of the paper. 

 

In his article, Dershowitz accused the Iranian government of involvement in the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992.  

 

He also wrote that the Iranian government has now made crystal clear that it is at war not only with Israel and Zionism but with Jewish communities throughout the world and that it may become necessary for the U.S. military to target Iranian nuclear facilities if economic sanctions and diplomatic efforts do not succeed and if the Iranian government decides to cross red lines by what he called militarizing its nuclear program. 

 

Following is the text of the Iranian mission’s article entitled “Iranophobia Is Totally Unwarranted”: 

 

Iranian officials have repeatedly condemned all forms of terrorism, and as some of the highest U.S. officials mentioned recently, Iran has no intention or interest in any illegal action against anyone. In its contemporary history Iran has no record of attacking or invading any country. Despite its Iranophobia and baseless allegations and plots against Iran, the Israeli regime is responsible for a long list of invasions, terror, assassinations, war crimes and killing of innocents that are not deniable and which it never tried to deny. This reflects a hypocritical double standard and a callous disregard for international law.

 

Iran, as well as many other nations in the Middle East, has been a victim of systematic terrorism carried out or supported by the Israeli regime (i.e., what happened in Dubai on Jan. 19, 2010). The fact is that Israel, through its mouthpieces in the Western media, has desperately tried to deflect attention from its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people and from its denial of their legitimate rights by manufacturing a false Iranian threat. Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, legal under the provisions of (the) Non-Proliferation Treaty, and transparent in light of Iran’s extensive cooperation with the IAEA, which has repeatedly confirmed the absence of any evidence of military diversion of declared nuclear material. 

 

Finally, regarding the author’s false allegations about Iran’s role in a bombing in Argentina in 1992, suffice it to say that the real target was Argentina’s bilateral relations with Iran. Given Israel’s notoriety in using so-called “false flag operations,” the real value of Mr. Dershowitz’s article is that it should send a warning to the people and American policy makers to beware of not falling into yet another Israeli trap.