President Shim'on Peres welcomed his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, to Jerusalem, Tuesday morning and thanked him for good developments in the relations between the two countries. Peres said, "These relationsareof fundamental importanceand practicalat the same time."
Regarding Iran, he said, "The leader ofIransaysthat religionforbidsthe building of nuclear weapons,butthose who are workingin its name are building this kind of threatening weapon.It's horrible for the earsto hear.Iranian leadersdeny the Holocaustand are threateninga new Holocaust.There is no place forindifferenceordisregard.Indifferenceto horroris the biggest of horrors."