Iran brushes off Bush “WWIII" warning

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Source: AFP

TEHERAN - Iran Thursday shrugged off a warning by US President George W. Bush that its nuclear programme could lead to “World War III”, saying his remarks only served to show Teheran’s diplomatic success.

“These declarations show the anger of the United States against the success of Iran on the international stage,” said Abdol Reza Rahmani Fazli, the deputy head of Iran’s supreme national security council.

“The statements by the American president, who claims that Iran is seeking to make an atomic bomb, are part of a psychological war,” he added.

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Rahmani Fazli also accused Bush of playing down the importance of Tuesday’s visit to Teheran by Russian President Vladimir Putin who backed Iran’s right to nuclear energy and emphasised Moscow’s differences with the West.

Bush was trying to “cover up the information about Putin’s visit and minimise the results of this visit,” he said.

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[Ilsa]

1. "The statements by the American president ... are part of a psychological war"

Yeah, a war against the citizens of the US.

I thought Ahmadinejad was supposed to be the unreasonable one.

[thunder35]

2. if the us attacks iran they going to have to deal with russia