Saturday, 15 April 2006

IRAN HAS NO CHANCE OF PRODUCING NUKES ON ITS OWN - RUSSIAN CHIEF OF STAFF

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Iran has no opportunity to develop its own nuclear weapons, said Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Yury Baluyevsky. \"I can tell you with all confidence that what Iran is doing now will not enable it to develop nuclear weapons either in the near or in the distant future,\" Baluyevsky told journalists in Moscow on Saturday.
Iran has no opportunity to develop its own nuclear weapons, said Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Yury Baluyevsky. \"I can tell you with all confidence that what Iran is doing now will not enable it to develop nuclear weapons either in the near or in the distant future,\" Baluyevsky told journalists in Moscow on Saturday. Asked whether Iran\'s uranium enrichment efforts pose a danger to Russia\'s southern territories, Baluyevsky replied, \"I don\'t see such a threat. In my view, all Iran is doing in this area is aimed at preventing the use of force against itself.\" (Interfax)
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