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Iran's nuclear programme no threat, Tehran tells Sarkozy
Sep 5, 2008, 10:28 GMT
Tehran - Tehran on Friday rejected remarks by President Nicolas Sarkozy on Iran's nuclear weapons being a threat to the region and the whole world.
'Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's defence doctrine,' foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi was quoted by Fars news agency as saying.
Sarkozy on Thursday asked his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad for support in opposing Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
While acknowledging Iran's right to have nuclear power, Sarkozy stressed that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a threat to the region and the whole world.
Iran insists that its nuclear projects were solely for civil and peaceful purposes but the West fears that the Islamic state would work on a secret programme for making nuclear weapons.
The request by the West and the United Nation's Security Council from Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programmes has so far been rejected by Tehran which says that in line with Non-Proliferation Treaty, the country was also entitled to have enrichment process.
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Israel is the threat to the Middle East and world. Iran must have nuclear bombs if it is going to survive Israel and its enemies, all of whom have nuclear bombs.
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Ha Ha HaSep 5th, 2008 - 22:35:41
That is like saying 'Obama is no threat to the USA'
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