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Royal: Iran central threat

Updated: 05/Dec/2006 18:50

French Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal (R) shakes hands with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting Monday at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem.

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French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal said in a meeting with Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Speaker Dalia Itzik Monday afternoon that if she was elected president, she would “do everything to prevent Iran from achieving even peaceful nuclear capability”.

Itzik emphasized the danger of a Lebanese revolution, “Israel won’t stand idly by against a potential Hizbullah country.”

Royal spoke of her time as environment minister and said, “I know how easy the transition is between peaceful nuclear capabilities to military capability. Iran is definitely a central threat.”

According to Royal, she had been attacked many times by political rivals in France over the finger she pointed at Iran’s policy.

During a televised confrontation with Socialist rivals, Royal said that Iran had to be prevented the right to develop its nuclear program. Her rivals rebuked her comments and claimed she did not understand the subject and that Iran had the right to develop a peaceful nuclear program.

An official of the French Socialist party told Ynet that Royal was trying to present an opposing stance to that of the country’s current President Jacques Chirac.

He also explained her intention to emphasize that the gap between a peaceful nuclear program and a military one was so small that she believed Iran should not be allowed to develop any nuclear program whatsoever and that if it needed energy it should accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer of enriching uranium in Russia.

This article was first published by Ynetnews.com

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