France’s Sarkozy: Military strike on Iran would trigger Middle East war

DPA
January 20, 2012

French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned against any military intervention against Iran over its nuclear program, saying a strike on Iran would “trigger war and chaos in the Middle East.”

At his annual New Year’s address to diplomats in Paris, Sarkozy warned “a military intervention would not solve the problem (of Iran’s nuclear program) but would trigger war and chaos in the Middle East and maybe the world.”

France would “do everything to avoid a military intervention,” he said, calling instead for “much stronger sanctions” against Iran.

Sarkozy’s remarks come amid fresh tensions between Iran and the West since a report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog late last year, which said Iran had tested designs normally used to make a nuclear weapon.

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