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Posted at 02:53 PM ET, 09/27/2012

Netanyahu draws an actual red line ... on a bomb cartoon

By Olga Khazan

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed to convince the audience that Iran will have enriched enough uranium for a nuclear bomb by next summer. To the entertainment of those watching, he chose a particularly cartoonish way — literally — to make his point:

View the story "netanyahu" on StorifynetanyahuStorified by Olga Khazan · Thu, Sep 27 2012 11:41:02Earlier today, the Israeli leader tweeted this picture of himself preparing his U.N. speech:A short time before landing in New York I am again going over the address that I will deliver tonight at the UN http://pic.twitter.com/BtjawgalBenjamin NetanyahuApparently what he came up with was this: A visual representation of how far Iran has yet to go before it develops an atomic bomb. According to Netanyahu, Iran is already 70 percent of the way there. @elwoollyMammoth this apparently @nytimesworld Netanyahu http://pic.twitter.com/umni3huk""FoomiHe accentuated his point with an actual red line:Netanyahu draws line over bomb with beg red marker.Hala GoraniHe cannot be serious.... http://twitpic.com/ayvd6a #RoadRunner bomb graphics #Netanyahu #Acme #BeepBeepMichael WildThe sight gag definitely caused the room to snap to attention, but perhaps not in the way the Israeli leader had hoped:Okay, it's official: #Netanyahu has no idea what he's doing. He has just turned a serious issue into a joke.Jeffrey GoldbergNetanyahu's bomb cartoon is the Middle East equivalent of Clint Eastwood's chair.Jeffrey GoldbergRT @JeffreyGoldberg: #Netanyahu's bomb last seen in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.Curtis Ryan

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