Benjamin Netanyahu warns Angela Merkel of new refugee crisis sparked by Iran
Berlin — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday that Iranian meddling in the Middle East could touch off massive new refugee flows to Europe, as they clashed about the future of the nuclear deal with Tehran. At the start of a three-day European tour dominated by strategic differences on Iran, Netanyahu charged that Tehran had been able to bankroll a growing military presence in countries such as Syria and Yemen because sanctions had been lifted in exchange for its halt in nuclear enrichment activities. Iran wants to "basically conduct a religious campaign in largely Sunni Syria but try to convert Sunnis," he said at a joint media conference with Merkel. "This will inflame another religious war — this time a religious war inside Syria and the consequences will be many, many more refugees and you know where exactly they will come," he said. More than one-million asylum seekers, with Syrians making up the biggest group, have arrived i...
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