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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (1421)	1/8/2002 6:05:56 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Tuesday, January 08, 2002 Tevet 24, 5762 Israel Time: 12:51 (GMT+2) 09:25 08/01/2002 Last update - 10:32 08/01/2002 Iran says it is concerned about Peres visit to India By Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz Correspondent and Ha'aretz Service Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Sadak Harazi said the country is worried about the visit of Prime Minister Shimon Peres to India and is concerned about the true purpose of the visit, Israel Radio reported Tuesday. "We cannot accept that Israel, with its plots and in this unusual manner, becomes involved in regional affairs," he said. Harazi also called attention to the expansion of military ties between Israel and India and said that an arms race in southern Asia would harm peace and stability. In response to the Iranian official's comments, Shimon Peres told Army Radio in an interview from India on Tuesday, "If it is true that Tehran is worried about my visit, it is a good thing." "Until now Tehran has been involved in terror and has pretended to be innocent. We know that Tehran is the one supplying Hezbollah and other terror organizations with money and arms, and it has also been involved in the captured weapons ship," he said. Peres also told the radio that security and intelligence cooperation was taking place between Israel and India in order to fight terror. Foreign Minister Peres's visit to India got off to a good start Monday, with Peres praising India as a leading member of the "anti-terror" camp and his hosts thanking him for the fact that Israel was the first country to express solidarity after last month's attack on the Indian parliament. But the Pakistani press was laden with criticism of the visit, as well as of a visit to Israel by an Indian delegation for discussions of the war on terror. Some of the papers charged that India and Israel were planning a joint attack on Pakistan's nuclear facilities. Peres said that India and Israel "see the world eye to eye and agree that terror must disappear." He said that terror was delaying a solution to the Middle East crisis, and attacked Iran, comparing it to the former Soviet Union: "The ayatollahs run everything, just like the politburo, and the government exists primarily for public relations." Indian Interior Minister Lal Advani said that the "war of terror Pakistan has sent against us has reached the decisive stage, and the democratic world must understand this." On Tuesday, Peres will meet with India's prime minister, and with the foreign and defense ministers. haaretzdaily.com