The world is treating Iran like 1938 Germany, former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday, comparing the latest round of failed diplomatic talks over Tehran�s nuclear program to the world�s appeasement of the Nazi regime.Liberman, who heads the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and may re-assume the foreign minister-ship should he be cleared of the breach of trust charges he currently faces, said he made the same comments to Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, who is visiting Israel.
�The result of the latest round of talks between the powers and Iran� is a de-facto acceptance by the West of an Iranian nuclear bomb, like the past acceptance of a nuclear North Korea and of the take over of Czechoslovakia by Hitler [in 1938],��Liberman wrote on Facebook, following the meeting with Baird.
Such acceptance means that �by the end of the year Iran will be able to manufacture a nuclear bomb,� Liberman wrote. �That�s a dangerous message for peace in the region and the entire world.�
In 1938, Europe�s powers allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia in a bid to avoid war with Nazi Germany. The so-called Munich agreement is often cited as a historical precedent for the failure of appeasement.
Liberman, like many government officials, has long seen the negotiations between six world powers and Iran as a futile exercise that is buying Tehran time to enrich enough uranium for a nuclear bomb. The six world powers � the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany � say time remains for diplomacy.
Last week�s negotiations between Tehran and world powers revealed the sides were still �long way apart� and far from a deal, Western officials said after the talks.
Following the failure of the sides to find common ground and a growing fear in Israel and the US that Iran was playing for time,�lawmakers in Washington have started to push for more sanctions�against officials in the Islamic republic.
By The Times of Israel
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