Owaisi's big warning as US bombs Iran's sites: ‘Only deterrence against Israel… having a nuclear bomb’

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, while talking to the media on Sunday, said that having a nuclear bomb and a nuclear warhead is the only deterrence against Israel's hegemony, warning that other countries will also carry out bombings.

Owaisi was referring to the US bombing three sites in Iran early Sunday, with the Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency confirming that attacks targeted the country’s Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. US President Donald Trump warned of additional strikes if Iran retaliates.

“The bombing of these three or four places by the US in Iran will not deter them... Mark my words, even Iran will do it in the next 5 to 10 years, even other countries will do it because now they have realised that having a nuclear bomb and nuclear warhead is the only deterrence against Israel's hegemony,” Owaisi said. 

“This man (Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu), he has butchered Palestinians... He is doing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza. History will remember him as the butcher of Palestinians,” Owaisi added. 

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