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

To: michael97123 who wrote (11183)	1/9/2006 12:31:28 PM
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Last update - 19:05 09/01/2006 Halutz: Iran's nuclear program is not exclusively Israel's problem By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and The Agencies Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz told military correspondents Monday that the problem of Iran's nuclear program is one that should concern the entire world, and not just Israel. Iran "passed the ball to us and now we'll see what we'll do with it, but Israel is not in a rush. The whole world is against this. At the moment, this is not exclusively an Israeli problem and we must not see it as one." Iran confirmed it would resume research on nuclear fuel on Monday, prompting swift warnings by Germany of "consequences" and by the head of the IAEA that the world was running out of patience with Tehran. Russia's defense minister said earlier Monday that he hoped that the dispute over Iran's nuclear program would not escalate into open conflict, Russian news agencies reported Monday. Responding to a reporter's question about the possibility of war between Iran and Western countries, Sergei Ivanov was quoted by Interfax and RIA-Novosti as saying: "I very much hope that it will not come to this." On Sunday, Russian officials traveled to Iran for talks about Moscow's proposal that the two countries conduct uranium enrichment on Russian territory. The Russian proposal, backed by the European Union and the United States, was designed to ease concerns that Iran would use the fuel to build a bomb. Enrichment is a process that can produce nuclear fuel for reactors or atomic weapons, depending on the degree of enrichment. "Russia has made a very sensible proposal that does not violate international norms and that will not raise concerns of the world community," he was quoted as saying. "The Iranian nuclear problem does exist, and it needs to be dealt with by political and diplomatic means and within the framework of the (International Atomic Energy Agency)," Interfax quoted him as saying. The reports could not be immediately confirmed.