30 September 2012 - 16:40

A senior Iranian foreign ministry official scorned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bomb diagram during a UN speech, and stressed that Iran's growing power and influence has angered Tel Aviv.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Addressing a ceremony in Iran's Southern city of Kangan on Sunday, Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates' Affairs Hassan Qashqavi pointed to the cartoon-like bomb diagram shown by Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly meeting earlier this week, and said, "The fake regime of Israel is mocked by everyone in the world today, although such cheap actions of the leaders of the occupying Zionist regime are nothing new."

He said the Islamic Republic's dignity and might has angered the Israeli regime officials so much that they show such silly reactions.

When Netanyahu held up a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb during his speech at the UN he set off an explosion of jokes and mockery.

The Bibi Bomb, as it's being called using Netanyahu's nickname, is the latest in a series of props used by the Israeli leader as he tries to keep the global spotlight on Iran's nuclear program.

The image of Netanyahu and the diagram of a bomb with a lighted fuse was top news around the world. Headlines in Europe referred to his "bomb cartoon" and "comic strip."

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