(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - In a theatrical gesture, Netanyahu held up a cartoon-like drawing of a spherical bomb and drew a red line below the fuse, alleging that it shows Iran before it "completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment to make a bomb".
On Sunday, Iran's Ambassador to Italy Seyed Mohammad Hosseini described the remarks as a "historical joke", and noted, "What was raised by the prime minister of the Zionist regime is nothing but delusion. Nobody takes it seriously, even the US leaders."
"The remarks are raised by the head of a regime which is the greatest international and regional threat, an illegitimate regime founded through the occupation of the lands of the Palestinian nation."
Earlier this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also mocked Netanyahu's bomb diagram, saying that it was an insult to participants at the UN session.
"He had drawn an infantile diagram which was more an insult to the audience and that showed how they look at others; they see themselves in a high position and (see) other nations as to be nothing," Ahmadinejad told reporters in a press conference here in Tehran.
"That is a very hideous behavior," Ahmadinejad added, and advised Netanyahu to "do more drawing homework to improve his drawing" skills.
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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