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\nPresident Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday explicitly warned that Israel would bomb the Islamic Republic of Iran if it continued to enrich uranium.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday explicitly warned that Israel would bomb the Islamic Republic of Iran if it continued to enrich uranium.<\/p>\n
“Iran is taking a major risk by continuing the process of obtaining nuclear weapons, which is a certainty for us,” Mr Sarkozy said. “Whatever government is in power in Israel, we may wake up one morning and find that Israel has struck.<\/p>\n
“Then the problem won’t be figuring out whether it’s legitimate, whether it’s a good idea. It will be a catastrophe and we must avoid this catastrophe.”<\/p>\n
Mr Sarkozy made the remarks in a closed session at the “dialogue for stability” summit here. The comments were addressed to the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the Emir of Qatar and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.<\/p>\n
Journalists in an adjoining room in the presidential palace could not hear what Mr Sarkozy said, but his voice was inadvertently transmitted to a press centre in a Damascus hotel.<\/p>\n
The brief summit was supposed to further progress towards direct negotiations between Syria and Israel, but it was dominated by the Iranian nuclear question.<\/p>\n
An adviser to Mr Sarkozy said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes the Iranian enrichment facility at Natanz has produced “quantities sufficient for half a nuclear warhead”.<\/p>\n