Netanyahu censures IAEA chief for warning that it is illegal to attack nuclear facilities

March 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has criticized this Sunday the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, who affirmed on Saturday, after visiting Iran, that it is “illegal” to attack nuclear facilities.

“Any military attack against a military installation is illegal and is outside the regulations that we must all comply with,” Grossi said when questioned at a press conference about the threats by the United States and Israel to attack Iran if the negotiations to stop it do not come to fruition. their fear of the development of nuclear weapons.

“Rafael Grossi is a valid person who has made an invalid statement,” Netanyahu pointed out during the Council of Ministers this Sunday. “Forbidden by law? Iran, which publicly calls for our extermination, can it protect its weapons of destruction that would massacre us?” He added, reports The Times of Israel.

“Are we forbidden to defend ourselves? Of course we are allowed to do so and we are doing it (…). Nothing will prevent us from protecting our country and preventing the oppressors from destroying the Jewish State,” he stressed.

Israel has already bombed nuclear facilities in Syria in 2007 and Netanyahu himself has warned that he will attack Iran while waging a covert war against Iranian operatives throughout the Middle East region.

In 2021 an unrecognized Israeli attack damaged the uranium enrichment centrifuges at the Natanz plant and in 2020 Tehran blamed Israel for a sophisticated attack that killed its top nuclear scientist.