TEL AVIB, Israel, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Speaking on Israel radio's Farsi language Shaul Mofaz promised to protect the environment from radioactive fallout if Israel destroyed Iran's nuclear ability.
Israel's Iranian-born defense minister Shaul Mofaz made the unique gesture of answering questions this week from listeners in Iran in their own language.
In a live broadcast over Israel Radio's Farsi-language service the questions came thick and fast.
Mofaz was six when his family emigrated from Iran to Israel. His knowledge of Farsi is rudimentary at best. But that didn't stop the Israeli defense chief from getting his message across to a stream of callers from the Islamic Republic who appealed to him for help on Israel Radio's Farsi service this week.
One caller from a city in central Iran asked when Israel and the Jews would finally repay their historical debt to Cyrus the Great and rescue the Iranian people from the dread ayatollahs, just as U.S. President George W. Bush had helped the people of Iraq and Afghanistan throw off their oppressors.
Mofaz, admitting he was not in the miracle business, wished the Iranian people success in their struggle for freedom.
