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Bush, Merkel join forces on Iran

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Iran Focus: London, Jan. 13 – United States President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel censured Iran on Friday for resuming nuclear enrichment-related activities earlier this week. Iran Focus

London, Jan. 13 – United States President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel censured Iran on Friday for resuming nuclear enrichment-related activities earlier this week.

At a joint conference in the White House, Merkel said that the international community “will certainly not be intimidated by a country such as Iran”.

Bush said that he hoped that the issue of Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program could be solved diplomatically. “But I recognise that it’s logical that a country which has rejected diplomatic entreaties be sent to the United Nations Security Council”, he said.

He said that Iran’s development of the know-how of a nuclear weapon was “unacceptable”. “And the reason it’s unacceptable is because Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat to the security of the world”.

Both Bush and Merkel also condemned the recent remarks by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denied the Holocaust and called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”, with the U.S. President describing the comments as “unacceptable”.

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