Israel's 'cartoonish circus' does not deserve dignity of response: Iran FM

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifhas slammed Israeli prime minister's anti-Iran accusations during the MunichSecurity Conference as 'cartoonish circus', saying his remarks do not deserve aresponse.

"You were the audience for a cartoonishcircus just this morning which does not even deserve the dignity of aresponse," Zarif said while addressing the annual conference in the German cityon Sunday.

Addressing participants at the Munich SecurityConference earlier on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showedoff what he called a piece of an Iranian drone, which the Israeli militaryclaims to have downed more than a week ago, and said the Tel Aviv regime could"act" directly against Iran.

Earlier this month, Tel Aviv claimed that ithad responded to the infiltration of an Iranian drone into the Israeliairspace.