"we won’t accept the statements that Israel, as a Zionist state, should be
destroyed and wiped off the map...By the same token, we oppose attempts to
view any regional problem through the prism of fighting Iran...including
Washington’s announcement of its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
Israeli capital" Lavrov emphasized.

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Lavrov: Russia won’t accept statements on destroying Israel or on fighting
Iran
Moscow opposes attempts to view any regional problem through the prism of
fighting Iran, Russia's top diplomat emphasized
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MOSCOW, February 19. 2018 /TASS/. Russia condemns Tehran’s remarks that
Israel should be wiped off the map and also believes that solving any
regional problems should not be viewed through the prism of a conflict with
Iran, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

Tensions between Israel and Iran are escalating and there are historical
reasons for that, Lavrov said at the opening of the Valdai International
Discussion Club’s conference "Russia in the Middle East: Playing on All
Fields."

"We have stated many times that we won’t accept the statements that Israel,
as a Zionist state, should be destroyed and wiped off the map. I believe
this is an absolutely wrong way to advance one’s own interests," Lavrov
stressed.

"By the same token, we oppose attempts to view any regional problem through
the prism of fighting Iran," he noted. This is happening in Syria, Yemen and
even the latest developments around the Palestinian issue, including
Washington’s announcement of its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
Israeli capital, are largely motivated by this anti-Iranian stance," Lavrov
emphasized.

On December 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump stated that time had come to
officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the
Department of State to start preparations for moving the US embassy there
from Tel Aviv.

The status of Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel insists that Jerusalem is its "eternal
and indivisible" capital, whereas the Palestinians seek to make the city’s
eastern part the capital of their future state.