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Ex-Spain PM: Putin told me 'Israel will take care of Iran'
Don't worry about Iran, Israel will take care of it, former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as telling him years ago.Aznar, speaking Wednesday at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs on a meeting he had with the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 2002, said Putin's comments came after he entreated him not to sell S300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. "We can sell them anything," Aznar quoted Putin as saying, because in the end "Israel will take care of it." Aznar, one of the few western leaders to have met Khamenei, said the Iranians made it clear when they met in October 2000, that "Israel was a historic cancer and an anomaly condemned to disappear." Aznar said he found in Khamenei a man not only inspired by faith, but also "more nationalistic than I imagined." Aznar said the Iranian leader wanted Iran to flourish in all fields, especially science and technology, in order to attain self sufficiency and independence. It was this desire for self-sufficiency, he said, which has led the Iranians to strive to develop nuclear weapons, rather than buy one from North Korea or Pakistan.
Posted by: tipper 2012-05-16 |
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