Egypt Joins Ahmadine-bashing
Monday, December 25, 2006
The fallout from Iran's election blowout continues across the Middle East, with Egypt now joining the chorus slapping down President Ahmadinejad. In an unusual move, the foreign minister of Egypt tartly announced that Iran should not claim to be a nuclear power until it actually is a nuclear power. Key graf, from the AP:
Wait, don't escalate.Reacting to the United Nations Security Council resolution that imposed limited sanctions on Iran for its refusal to cease uranium enrichment, President Ahmadinejad told a gathering in Tehran on Sunday that, whether the world liked it or not, "Iran is a nuclear country."
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit disputed this on Monday, saying in a statement that "the possession by some countries of peaceful nuclear technology, or some of stages of the nuclear cycle, or carrying out some peaceful nuclear activities, does not mean by any means that it can call itself a nuclear state.""Nuclear states are only those that have military nuclear capabilities," Aboul Gheit added.
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