Recently, Saudi Arabia presented a plan to Israel which may end in Arabs recognizing Israeli regime. Iran is insisting that this plan can not work.
SHUNEH, Jordan: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday expressed his country’s rejection of a Saudi-backed four-year-old Arab-Israeli peace initiative, saying it was bound to fail.
“Despite the good (intentions) of some countries and some parties to protect the right of Palestinians, we do believe that either due to the plans or due to the other side’s approach, all of those plans will fail,” he said.
“If we talk based on realities, I do not see any chance,” Mottaki added in comments to journalists at one of the Jordan-based World Economic Forum plenary meetings.
Mottaki said that the important conditions outlined in the initiative would not see the light.
“No capital for Palestine, no for the returning of the refugees who stand up to 5mn Palestinians,” he told journalists.
“We can recognise more than 132 plans for peace in the last 30 years. Why were these plans or initiatives not met or realised?” Mottaki asked. Iran, he added, has proposed a “democratic free and fair referendum” where original Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians would vote and choose their regime.