UN speech, the session’s last, sees PM stress Rouhani’s central role in savage, deceitful regime; says only sanctions and military threat keep Iran from the bomb; urges international community to ‘distrust, dismantle and verify’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday October 1, 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in New York (photo credit: AP/Andrew Gombert,Pool)

A nuclear-armed Iran would be as dangerous as “50 North Koreas” and the country’s new president is trying to “fool the world”, Benjamin Netanyahu has declared.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN on Tuesday, calling on the world to keep up the pressure on Iran, including sanctions, and explaining why the regime cannot be trusted. “Israel will stand alone if it needs to,” he told the General Assembly. The Times of Israel liveblogged the speech and surrounding developments.

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