KOUCHNER: ISRAEL WILL STRIKE IRAN BEFORE IT IS ABLE TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PanARMENIAN.Net
08.10.2008 14:33 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned
that Israel will strike archfoe Iran before it is able to develop
nuclear weapons, in comments published on Sunday.
"I honestly don’t believe (a nuclear weapon) will give any immunity to
Iran," Kouchner said in an interview with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper
during a two-day visit to the region.
"First, because you will hit them before. And this is the
anger. Israel has always said it will not wait for the bomb to be
ready. I think that (the Iranians) know. Everyone knows," he said.
The newspaper’s print edition quoted Kouchner as saying that Israel
would "eat" Iran, but in a written statement the Foreign Minister
said he had used the word "hit," and that he regretted any "phonetic
confusion".
Kouchner told Haaretz he hoped tough diplomacy and sanctions would
persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, which Israel and
many Western countries believe is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
"Iran with an atomic bomb is unacceptable at all… Talking, talking
talking, and offering dialogue, sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. Is
the alternative to bomb first – I think not," he said, the AFP reports.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
