01 August 2007
In an interview with the American “National Public Radio”, Israel’s president Shimon Peres has called Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "an unbelievable joke." Peres then went on to say that Iran’s president was "worshipping the bomb more than he's worshipping the G-d in heaven."
"My impression is that in his eyes the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah," Peres said. The president also hinted that skyrocketing unemployment and inflation were not high on Ahmadinejad’s priority list. "All the attention is about the bomb, but people cannot live on a bomb," he said.
During a tour of the Upper Galilee region in Israel, Peres attacked Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah, saying that Hezbollah had not really achieved anything in the second Lebanon war. "I heard Nasrallah's incendiary speech yesterday," the president said. "What can I say? He speaks wisely but acts stupidly. If Hezbollah wanted to achieve something, it would fare much better at the negotiating table than on the battlefield."
