Iran nuclear program needs political, not military response: Peres

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Israeli president opposes attack on Iran's nuclear sites
Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday he opposes a military strike on Iran and prefers the use of international economic sanctions to persuade Tehran to halt its nuclear enrichment programme. "A military operation is not necessary. I do not think the Americans think in these terms because they have many other cards to play," Peres told Israeli public radio after a meeting with US Vice President Dick Cheney in Italy. "If the Americans manage to form a coalition to unify their positions with those of Europeans, they have sufficient means to exert pressure on the Iranians," Peres added. Peres had met Cheney on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti forum on Italy's Lake Como, an international gathering of leaders and experts focused mostly on economic issues. Israel and the West have repeatedly called on Iran to halt its uranium enrichment programme, which they fear is aimed at developing nuclear weapons but which Tehran defends as part of a peaceful energy venture. Israel, the region's sole if undeclared nuclear-armed state, has considered Iran its main strategic threat after repeated predictions of its demise by senior Iranian leaders. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said last month after a meeting with visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Israel would not rule out any options to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran meanwhile risks a possible fourth round of UN sanctions after it failed to give a clear response to an incentives package offered by six major world powers in return for halting uranium enrichment, a process which makes nuclear fuel but also the core of an atomic bomb.

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Rome (AFP) Sept 5, 2008
Iran's nuclear program demands a political rather than a military response, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Friday, a day after his French counterpart warned Tehran risked a possible Israeli strike.

"I think the problem can be resolved not militarily but politically and economically," Peres told reporters, on the sidelines of a meeting in the northern Italian town of Cernobbio that also included Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

In remarks carried by ANSA news agency, he described a military option in dealing with Iran as "an error."

"So long as there is a possibility of acting politically and economically, it is much better," Peres said.

On Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Tehran that its determination to press on with its controversial nuclear drive risked an Israeli strike that would be a "catastrophe."

Peres and Abbas shook hands and embraced at the meeting largely dealing with the economy that gathers pundits and a variety of international leaders.

US Vice President Dick Cheney was expected later in the day, after wrapping up visits to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine.

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Russia says will complete Iran nuclear plant

Tehran (AFP) Sept 2, 2008
The Russian company building Iran's first nuclear power plant has renewed a commitment to complete the project, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

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