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Israel Will Not Agree to Iran Nuclear Capability

January 16, 2006
Agence France-Presse
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Israel will not allow "a totalitarian" Iran which exports international terrorism to have a nuclear capability, Israeli President Moshe Katsav said in a newspaper interview. "It would be the first step for atomic bombs to fall into the hands of terrorists of the (Shiite fundamentalist movement) Hezbollah, the (Islamist) Hamas or Al-Qaeda for example," said Katsav who was born in Iran in 1945.

"We don't have a conflict of interest with Iran, we don't have a common border but we cannot allow a totalitarian country which exports international terrorism to have a nuclear capability," he told the conservative ABC newspaper on Monday.

Iran is a threat for Israel and for the rest of the world, he added.

The interview was published as Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, a former EU envoy to the Middle East, began a three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, 20 years after the two countries established diplomatic relations.

Moratinos last year criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of Israel, saying such rhetoric had "no place" in a civilised world.