Posted on 02/01/2007 9:33:53 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
FRENCH President Jacques Chirac has said it would not be very dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, but later retracted the remark, according to an interview with two newspapers and a French magazine published overnight.
Mr Chirac spoke to reporters from the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune (IHT) and Le Nouvel Observateur earlier this week, and in initial comments said Tehran would be razed to the ground if Iran launched a nuclear attack against Israel.
His comments ran counter to the official French position, and a day later Mr Chirac called the trio of reporters back to his office to say he thought he had been speaking off the record and to withdraw many of his remarks.
The IHT and New York Times said Mr Chirac, 74, appeared distracted at times and struggled to remember names and dates in the first interview, but appeared more alert the next day.
"I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb - having one, maybe a second one a little later, well, that's not very dangerous," Mr Chirac was quoted as saying in the first interview.
His remarks were at odds with the position of France's main allies - the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia and China - which are pressuring Tehran to abandon sensitive nuclear technology that could be used to make atom bombs.
The president's office insisted today that France had not changed its line regarding Iran.
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SCREW THE FROGS!!!!!
Perhaps the crazy mullahs will use Paris as their testing ground.
Chriac assumes that Iran will use the nukes to go after Israel first. Trusting soul isn't he.
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