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Kuwait warns against Iran nuclear crisis escalating
Karla Hult,
KARE
11 News
Saturday April 7, 2007
Kuwait's foreign minister warned in an interview published on
Sunday that wrangling in the standoff over Iran's controversial
nuclear programme must not be allowed to escalate.
"The situation is moving towards escalation and confrontation
in the region," Sheikh Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah told
the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat newspaper.
The UN Security Council has imposed two packages of sanctions against
Iran over its failure to heed international ultimatums calling on
it to suspend its uranium enrichment programme.
The latest resolution placed a "timeline of escalation against
Tehran," Sheikh Mohammed said, adding that he feared "what
happened to Saddam Hussein might happen to the Iranians."
The United States fears Iran is secretly developing an atomic weapon,
a charge Tehran strongly denies.
Sheikh Mohammed said he met his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr
Mottaki at a meeting of Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia last month
and urged him to "work with wisdom, with lawful international
decisions."
Gulf Arab states neighbouring Iran are close allies of the United
States and fear being dragged into a military conflict if concerns
over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions are not resolved peacefully.
Iran on Sunday reiterated that any suspension of sensitive nuclear
activities was not open to discussion, the day before President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to announce a major development
in its atomic project.
"We will not discuss the legitimate rights of Iran,"
foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told a news conference
in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad on Monday is due to visit the uranium enrichment facility
in Natanz -- Iran's most sensitive nuclear site -- to mark the Islamic
republic's day of nuclear technology.
He is expected to make a major announcement after repeatedly promising
"good news" about Iran's nuclear programme in the near
future.
Iran has said it wants to install 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges
at Natanz, and observers are expecting the announcement to refer
to progress in the enrichment process.
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