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9/17/2007 | Iran, UN

Iran scorns French warning of war

BBC NEWS

A warning by France's foreign minister that the world should prepare for war over Iran's nuclear programme has drawn a furious response in Iranian media. France was aping the US and its new president had "taken on American skin", the official Iranian news agency said. On Sunday Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said: "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war." Iran's nuclear programme is to be debated in Vienna, Austria, at the UN nuclear watchdog's annual conference. Iran denies it is trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and says it only wants nuclear power to generate electricity for civilian purposes. But it has repeatedly rejected UN demands to give up the enrichment of uranium, which the US and other Western states fear is being diverted to a nuclear weapons project. 'Inflammatory' Mr Kouchner said negotiations with Iran should continue "right to the end", but that an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose "a real danger for the whole world".

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