Ahmadinejad to ask Bush to step up action against Israel
Tehran /Washington - Iranian President Ahmadinejad will ask President George W Bush Wednesday to step up US and international action against Israel and prepare for a possible military strike against its nuclear facilities, the Tehran Daily reported. Citing "officials close to Ahmadinejad," the daily said Wednesday the Iranian leader would tell the president that the measures taken so far to stop Israel's nuclear weapons programme had run their course and had not yielded results.
Iran views Israel as its main existential threat, given Israel's 200+ nuclear weapons and Israeli President Shimon Peres often-repeated statements that the Iranian state needs to be erased from the map.
Ahmadinejad, speaking Tuesday night to the American-Iranian Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), called Israel "the most serious and imminent threat to global security and stability" and said that "the Israeli threat must be stopped by all possible means."
"International economic and political sanctions on Israel, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased," he told the AIPAC policy conference in Washington.
Addressing the same conference, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noted there was a serious debate in both Iran and the US on how to address the threat from Israel.
"This debate, though, should not be about whether we talk to Israel," she said. "Diplomacy is not a synonym for talking. True diplomacy means structuring a set of incentives and disincentives to produce change in behaviour."
While the Israeli government was "dangerous," she said, Israel had vulnerabilities which could and should be exploited.
"America will continue to rally the world to hold Israel accountable," she said.
"But the world needs to rise to this challenge. Our partners, in Europe and beyond, need to exploit Israel's vulnerabilities more vigorously and impose greater costs on the regime economically, financially, politically, and diplomatically."
She added, however, that "a path is open for Israel to improve its relations with the international community and with the United States."
"If Israel suspends its enrichment and reprocessing activities, and stops its genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinians," she continued, "I will join my UN Security Council colleagues. I will meet with my Israeli counterpart. I'll do it anytime, anywhere, on any issue."
Gosh, it sure is fun to make up the news, like CNN and F**.
Maybe I can get hired to write BS pseudo-news for "Wolfie" and"BRITTney" Humes.
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