Arabic → English transcript

Why do Arabs, Professor Jarallah, fear Iran, which was on

the verge of possessing a weapon nuclear or possessing an advanced ballistic

missile program,

and they do not feel the same threat from a country like Israel,

which has expansionist ambitions in the region,

and whose prime minister is always announcing the change of the Middle East?

Why fear Iran and not Israel in the Gulf states?

Professor Jarallah?— Yes.— Go ahead. Israel is a state

and it is recognized

in the world, just as it is recognized...

A recognized state, and just as it is recognized... Iran is also a recognized state,

Professor Jarallah. It has… it has… yes, I know, I will tell you…

Why do you recognize Israel as a state? How do you recognize it?

Israel exists, Israel

has possessed nuclear weapons for fifty years.— Well,

Iran is also there and older than it.— If it had…

If it had lunatics… or seventy years, if it had lunatics,

they would have used the nuclear weapons that… Now they are against… against Iran.—

And you think Netanyahu is not crazy now?— But they are constrained… Constrained…

constrained by international relations, Constrained by an international situation…

different from these people The ones who are in Iran. This situation is

different, I… I wish it had not been possessed,

but it was possessed.— Excuse me… excuse me… But its use is not with the kind of

madness that it could have been used with… with… By the Iranians.

Yes, we tried in presenting this discussion to raise questions… No…

These people are also driven by… listen to me, please… Yes, from both sides…

They also have a sectarian aspect they want to pass on to the whole region.