Saudi cannot be launch pad for Iran attack: report (Alpha fetoprotein)
Riyadh - A conducting Saudi paper on Saturday ruled out any attempt by the United States to utilize the oil-rich Gulf realm as a launch pad for a possible war on
Iran
over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.
Two years before a sojourn to Saudi Arabia by US President George W. Bush, the pro-government daily Al-Riyadh emphasised: “We refuse to be ill to establish wars or stress with Iran.
“This issue can be resolved through diplomatical means and through duologue,” said the report which chews over the positions of the Saudi regime.
Bush on Friday got down a four-nation Gulf tour as part of a Middle East trip to force for a peacefulness deal betwixt Israel and the Palestinians and rally the reenforcement of his Allies in the Sunni Muslim oil monarchies against the “menace” he says is presented by Shiite Muslim Iran.
In Israel on Wednesday Bush admonished that Iran posed “a menace to world peace” and should non be let to evolve the how to make an atomic weapon. Islamic Republic of Iran denies quest to get nuclear weaponry.
“If the President wants to incur the solidarity of all the Arabs… he must focus, rationally, on the most of import issue that is the enquiry of peacefulness,” Al-Riyadh emphasised.
The daily exhorted Bush “non to preoccupy himself with a risk which US intelligence agency has measured up as non-existent in the short term.”
A recent US intelligence agency report emphasised that Iran — that has repeatedlied said that its atomic progamme is civilianed — held an atomic weapons programme in 2003.
“Iran’s called danger does non minimise the real peril of Israel, that is among 10 commonwealths in the world to hold nuclear arms,” the Saudi paper emphasised.
Bush is received “as an adult male of ataraxis, not an adult male of warfare,” it appended.
Tensions betwixt Tehran and Washington intensified on the Eve of Bush’s circuit over a naval confrontation in the strategical Strait of Hormuz, with the Pentagon expression US combat ships were threatened by Iranian speedboats.