Kuwait: Iran strike reports exaggerated

Press TV
Monday, July 7, 2008

Kuwait’s Parliament Speaker Jassem al-Kharafi says circulating reports about a possible military strike against Iran are ‘exaggerated’.

Kharafi made the remark in response to a question about a possible US or Israeli attack against Iran over its nuclear program, during a Sunday meeting with the editors of Kuwaiti media.

The speaker of Kuwait’s National Assembly also predicted that Iran’s dispute with the West would end in a peaceful way. International efforts regarding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear issue will prove successful to some extent, he said.

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During the past month, there has been a great deal of media hype internationally regarding a possible Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

In the first week of June, the Israeli air force staged a maneuver off the southern Mediterranean Island of Crete in an apparent preparation for an attack on Iran.

The military exercise involved Israeli warplanes flying over 900 miles, almost the same distance from their airfields to a nuclear enrichment facility in the central Iranian city of Natanz.

The US, Israel and their allies accuse Tehran of trying to acquire atomic weapons. This is while Israel itself is widely believed to possess the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal with 200 ready-to-use atomic warheads.

Iran, however, strongly rejects these allegations and insists that generating electricity is the sole purpose of its nuclear program.

To clarify its peaceful intentions, Iran has maintained cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, which has so far carried out at least 14 surprise inspections at the country’s nuclear sites without coming up with any evidence to support US claims on the issue.

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