13 February '12..
International jurist Prof. Irwin Cotler met with Jerusalem Post staff recently, and restated his view
"that Ahmadinejad is a “clear and present threat” not only to international peace and security but also to his own people. The Iranian president embodies “four distinct yet interrelated dangers,” in Cotler’s words: “the nuclear threat; the genocidal incitement threat; state-sponsored terrorism; and the systematic and widespread violations of the rights of the Iranian people.” Liat Collins/JPost
In the OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) to the Canadian House of Commons, Wednesday, February 16, 2011, Human Rights Situation in Iran, Prof. Irwin Cotler elaborates on these four points:
.... Recent developments have served only to expose and magnify this critical massive threat. For example, in the matter of Iran's nuclear weaponization program, the International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed concern that Iran was “advancing in its efforts to construct a nuclear warhead, to develop a missile delivery system for such a warhead, and a mechanism to detonate such a weapon”. Simply put, the IAEA and arms control experts have reported that Iran has enriched enough nuclear fuel to build these dreaded nuclear bombs.
In the matter of state-sanctioned incitement to genocide, Iranian leaders have continued their incendiary calls for Israel's destruction. Underpinning this state-sanctioned incitement are the dehumanizing and demonizing epidemiological metaphors characterizing Israel as a “cancerous tumour” that must be excised and the Jewish people as “evil incarnate”, the whole as prologue to and justification for Israel's impending demise.
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