A global Jewish human rights organization based in Los Angeles says the Iranian regime is led by religious fanatics who believe launching a nuclear conflagration would hasten the return of their messiah.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is pleased that the United States, along with Canada and Israel, walked out during the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week. But the leading non-government Jewish human rights organization says the Holocaust denier was still able to achieve what he wanted at the U.N.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, tells OneNewsNow that the Iranian president was still able to achieve his goal.
"In a sense the damage was already done," he says. "Ahmadinejad has already pretty much achieved what he wanted to by being able to come to the U.N., by speaking from the podium of the world body [and] slandering and threatening not only Israel but also slandering the United States."
Cooper says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu understands that negotiating with the Islamic regime is futile.
"Historians have said that mutually assured destruction stops things like nuclear bombs," he notes. "That's what happened during the Cold War with the Russians. Here you're dealing with religious fanatics who believe that a nuclear conflagration in the Middle East would help hasten their messiah."
Cooper says right now it seems the only country with the capability and the will to stand up to the Iranians is Israel.