We're also getting the first statements from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who reacted to this violent incident, saying this. >> Instead, Prime Minister, you replaced weakness with weak with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement. Your government did nothing to stop the spread of anti-semitism in Australia.
You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action. You let the disease spread and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today.
>> Israeli officials say they provided the Australian government with information about a possible terrorist attack, but it was clearly not heard. We're also getting a tweet from the foreign minister spokesman in Iran who says as a matter of principle, Iran condemns the violent attack against civilians in Sydney, Australia. Terror violence and mass killing shall be condemned wherever they're committed as unlawful and criminal.
We did not hear a similar statement like that when the Iranians were launching ballistic missiles at Israel. And so that statement was not wellreceived by Israeli officials in the foreign ministry.
