Iran: ‘Reformist’ president defends Iran’s missile program, poses as a victim of Israel

Pezeshkian was referenced as “reformist” by the leftist Washington Post, NBC, The Conversation and other left-leaning organizations, when he is nothing but an obvious puppet of Iran’s Supreme Leader. His comment that Iran “needs such deterrence for its security, in a region where Israel is able to ‘drop missiles on Gaza every day'” is risible. Israel is defending itself from Iran and he knows it.

If Israel lay down its weapons, it will be obliterated. If jihadists lay down theirs, there will be peace. Israel simply wants to be left in peace on its tiny land.

“Iran’s president defends missile program; denies supplying them to Russia, Houthis,” Times of Israel, September 16, 2024:

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday during a televised press conference that Tehran would never give up its missile program, saying the country needs such deterrence for its security, in a region where Israel is able to “drop missiles on Gaza every day.”

“If we don’t have missiles, they will bomb us whenever they want, just like in Gaza,” Pezeshkian said.

He reiterated Tehran’s official stance with respect to its missile program, calling on the international community “to first disarm Israel before making the same demands of Iran.”

Pezeshkian’s comments referred to the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing since thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Other Iranian-backed terror groups in the region, most significantly Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as groups in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen, have also fired missiles and drones at Israel since the war broke out….