Russia slams Netanyahu for linking Iran's Bushehr to Nazi camps

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for drawing comparisons between Iran’s nuclear facilities and Nazi concentration camps, saying such statements are inappropriate and historically unfounded, according to TASS.

Zakharova stressed that the city of Bushehr and the Bushehr nuclear power plant have an exclusively peaceful character and should not be associated with sites such as Auschwitz, Sobibor, or Majdanek.

“There is no need to mention Bushehr and the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, which has an exclusively peaceful character, which has been inspected by everyone — and who, if not Israel and its leadership, should know this — it is unacceptable to link the Bushehr plant and the city of Bushehr with this horrific anti-historical chain — with Auschwitz, Sobibor, Majdanek or other concentration camps. No one gave anyone the right to do this, no one has such a right,” she said.

Zakharova also pointed out that Russian specialists had worked at the facility, “creating opportunities for the use of peaceful nuclear energy in Iran.”

She further argued that remarks by Israeli leaders about eliminating the threat of a “nuclear Holocaust” posed by Iran are inappropriate and disrespectful to the victims of World War II.

Her comments were made in response to Netanyahu’s statements claiming that Iran had allegedly “planned another Holocaust,” and that “the names Isfahan, Natanz, Fordow and Bushehr would sound like Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor” if Israelis “had not taken their fate into their own hands.”

By Tamilla Hasanova