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Israel stressed to Bush that Iran
is a nuclear 'threat': general
By AFP
13/01/08 -- JERUSALEM (AFP) — Iran poses a real nuclear threat
and Israel made that point clear to US President George W. Bush
during his visit this week, an Israeli defence official said
Saturday.
"We tried hard to present him the situation as we see it," Amos
Gilad, reserve general and political adviser to Defence Minister
Ehud Barak, told Israel's public radio.
"From a professional point of view the situation is clear: there
is an Iranian nuclear threat," Gilad said.
"After deep scrutiny, the intellience services reached the same
conclusion -- Iran is striving to obtain nuclear weapons," he
added.
Bush said on Wednesday that Iran posed "a threat to world peace"
and should not be allowed to develop the know-how to build a
nuclear weapon.
Iran vehemently denies seeking atomic weapons and insists that
its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and aimed at energy
generation.
A US intelligence report in December said that Iran halted a
nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
Gilad did not rule out a military strike against Iran over its
disputed nuclear programme, saying "we must consider all the
options."
"For now we prefer the diplomatic option. But as the US
president has often said, all options are on the table," he
said.
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