Iran threatens Israel if US acts "evil"
Iran threatened on Tuesday to attack Israel in response to any "evil" act by the United States and said it had enriched uranium to a level close to the maximum compatible with civilian use in power stations.
The defiant statements were issued shortly before world powers met in Paris late on Tuesday to plan their next moves after Tehran rejected a U.N. call to halt uranium enrichment.
Senior officials from the U.N. Security Council's permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany were discussing how to curb an Iranian programme that Western nations say conceals a drive for atomic warheads.
Iran denies the charge and refuses to back down from what it calls its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Edmund Blair
More sabre-rattling from Iran. Ahmadinejad is engaging in textbook brinksmanship. Bush doesn't have anything like the mettle of his cold-war predecessors (excepting Carter, of course). Iran has little to fear from us at the moment.
The defiant statements were issued shortly before world powers met in Paris late on Tuesday to plan their next moves after Tehran rejected a U.N. call to halt uranium enrichment.
Senior officials from the U.N. Security Council's permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany were discussing how to curb an Iranian programme that Western nations say conceals a drive for atomic warheads.
Iran denies the charge and refuses to back down from what it calls its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Edmund Blair
More sabre-rattling from Iran. Ahmadinejad is engaging in textbook brinksmanship. Bush doesn't have anything like the mettle of his cold-war predecessors (excepting Carter, of course). Iran has little to fear from us at the moment.
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