ROME - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi rejected a military option against Iran, stressing instead the need for dialogue, in an interview to be published Monday by Egypt’s leading Al Ahram newspaper. ‘On the Iranian nuclear program, the recipe is for dialogue, dialogue and more dialogue,’ Prodi said in the interview, disseminated by Al Ahram’s press services Sunday. The Italian leader’s remarks come ahead of a two-day visit to Cairo that begins Monday.Prodi rejected as ‘unthinkable’ the recourse to military force against Teheran to force it to abandon its nuclear program. Iran insists its nuclear activities are for peaceful, energy-generating purposes, while world powers fear Teheran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
Prodi said Teheran had no need for a nuclear program to be recognized as a ‘regional power’ -- that was already a ‘factual reality,’ he told Al Ahram.
| Iran doesn't want to be just a 'regional power'; they want to exterminate the Joooz and be the single, major Islamic power. That's why they want the bomb. |