To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (631527 ) 9/23/2004 4:21:29 PM From: Emile Vidrine Respond to of 769670 Israel Charges Iran Replaces Saddam as Terror Exporter (Israel has given Bush his orders and now he must obey and used more American lives and hundreds of billions to advance the Israeli agenda. Iran is a danger to Israel! I predicted for over a year and now the events have caught up with my predictions.) By Carol Giacomo UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel charged on Thursday that Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's primary exporter of "terror, hate and instability." Stepping up a war of words between the Middle East's two most implacable enemies, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom challenged the U.N. General Assembly to "end its obsession" with the Jewish state and focus instead on "the active involvement of Iran and Syria in terrorism." "Indeed, Iran has replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's number one exporter of terror, hate and instability," Shalom asserted at the world forum. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Wednesday that Israel, not Iran, was the greatest threat to all countries in the Middle East because of its "nuclear bombs as well as other weapons of mass destruction." Israel is widely believed to have the only atomic arsenal in the Middle East, although it maintains a policy of refusing to confirm or deny its nuclear capability . Iran insists that its own nuclear program, the object of intense scrutiny by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, is purely for peaceful purposes. Israel and the United States charge it is a front for efforts to produce the bomb. Shalom said in his speech there was a time when the problems of terror, Islamic fundamentalism and Iran's nuclear ambition were seen as "local problems, Israel's problems." The international community now recognized, he contended, that Iran, with missiles that could reach London, Paris, Berlin and southern Russia, threatened the whole world, not just Israel. FRUSTRATION Wednesday, Shalom told reporters the United Nations should move toward sanctions against Iran because Tehran was never going to abandon its alleged quest for nuclear weapons. Security sources in Israel reported this week said the Jewish state was planning to buy 500 U.S. "bunker buster" bombs that could be effective against Iran's underground facilities. Continued ... reuters.com .