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 Tehrans 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 Irans 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 Irans 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.
