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Iran, Syria blast Israel over nuclear programme
Sat Mar 25
Top officials from Syria and Iran, close allies under severe pressure from the international community, stood together to denounce Israel's nuclear programme as a threat to the Middle East.
Visiting yrian First Vice President Faruq al-Shara and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki regarded "the nuclear arms of the Qods occupier regime (Israel) and the fact that it does not join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a real threat in the Middle East", state television said.
Iran has signed the NPT, which governs the peaceful use of nuclear energy, but the Islamic republic is under fire from Western countries which accuse it of concealing a nuclear weapons programme. Tehran vigorously denies the charges.
Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons although it has stuck for the past 40 years to a policy of "strategic ambiguity" of neither confirming nor denying its arsenal.
The two officials also discussed Iraq, calling on foreign ministers of Iraq's neighbours for a meeting to look for ways to help the establishment of security and stability in the country.
Al-Shara, who arrived in Tehran on Friday, delivered a message from the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The report did not give more detail on al-Shara's meeting with the Iranian president.
The Syrian official wraps up his two-day meeting on Saturday afternoon.
This visit follows a January trip by Ahmadinejad to Damascus, Tehran's main regional ally.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is accused of involvement in Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder last year, made a similar visit to Tehran in August 2005.
Source: Agence France Presse
Sat Mar 25
Top officials from Syria and Iran, close allies under severe pressure from the international community, stood together to denounce Israel's nuclear programme as a threat to the Middle East.
Visiting yrian First Vice President Faruq al-Shara and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki regarded "the nuclear arms of the Qods occupier regime (Israel) and the fact that it does not join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a real threat in the Middle East", state television said.
Iran has signed the NPT, which governs the peaceful use of nuclear energy, but the Islamic republic is under fire from Western countries which accuse it of concealing a nuclear weapons programme. Tehran vigorously denies the charges.
Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons although it has stuck for the past 40 years to a policy of "strategic ambiguity" of neither confirming nor denying its arsenal.
The two officials also discussed Iraq, calling on foreign ministers of Iraq's neighbours for a meeting to look for ways to help the establishment of security and stability in the country.
Al-Shara, who arrived in Tehran on Friday, delivered a message from the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The report did not give more detail on al-Shara's meeting with the Iranian president.
The Syrian official wraps up his two-day meeting on Saturday afternoon.
This visit follows a January trip by Ahmadinejad to Damascus, Tehran's main regional ally.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is accused of involvement in Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder last year, made a similar visit to Tehran in August 2005.
Source: Agence France Presse
