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EU "underestimates" Iran threat, Czech premier charges
Apr 26, 2009, 13:28 GMT
Tel Aviv - The European Union 'underestimates the Iranian threat,' Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said in remarks quoted Sunday.
In an interview with the Ha'aretz daily as he wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Topolanek, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, added however that he believed that 'at this very moment, there is no imminent threat of a war between Israel and Iran.'
Israel regards Iran as its biggest existential threat, given Tehran's nuclear programme, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated statements that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.
New Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are especially vocal regarding Iran, but the Czech leader said their rhetoric was 'understandable.'
'The fact that Iran is a threat whose danger can be magnified if the country will have a nuclear weapon - that is something the entire world knows about. The fact that the EU is somewhat underestimating this threat is also true,' Topolanek said.
'Nevertheless, all of us are looking at this twin track approach toward Iran. I think that there is still time for hard power against Iran, but only after all soft-power means have been already used. At this moment I see an Israeli attack against Iran as very improbable.'
The issue of Iran, he continued, was uniting the entire region.
'For the first time, Israel and the Arab countries feel that they are facing the same threats. And under the pressure of this threat a solution must be found.'

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The Czechs are producing one despicable neocon after another. First Havel and now this miserable, disgusting asshole. According to this European ass-licker, Israel who has an entire nation under occupation, and is occupying parts of other two other countries under occupation, is nuclear armed and is constantly at war with it neighbors and is constantly and openly threatening war with others is not a threat to peace, and a country like Iran who constantly advocates peace and brotherhood between the nations of the world, has no territorial ambitions, has not invaded any country in centuries, is a threat to peace, only because Iran is opposing the murder, and genocide, and occupation and racism of the Zioinist regime.
Europe is falling to new lows by each passing day, and this little Czech asshole hoping to be taking seriously by big assholes is doing its best.
I agree with your sentiments. However, the Czech leader is a joke among other European countries, most of whom really opposed his 6-month head of the EU but had no choice because of the rotating presidency rule. The US is the country that should be pressuring not supporting Israel.
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SP4: The more I hear from this guyApr 26th, 2009 - 17:09:10
...the more I like him...
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