West creates tension in Mideast: Iran's Khatami
Monday, March 26, 2007 - ?2005 IranMania.com LONDON, March 26 (IranMania) - Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said that Iran exports oil to the West while Westerners export tension to the region, IRNA reported. Addressing a large group of Indian thinkers and intellectuals, he said the West is in dire need of the vast Persian Gulf natural resources including oil and gas. Voicing his opposition to presence of foreign forces anywhere in the world, he urged alien troops to withdraw from the Middle East region. As to the presence of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, Khatami stressed that foreign forces create tension in the Mideast region. Khatami, who is also head of the International Center for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations, further commented on Iran's peaceful nuclear program stressing that the Islamic Republic of Iran has never been interested in pursuance of nuclear weapons. The Iranian nation will never withdraw from its legitimate right of pursuing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, he reiterated. Khatami added that Iran, as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is ready to hold negotiations without any pre-conditions. Referring to Iran-India relations as historic, he voiced Iran's readiness to further promote all-out ties with both India and Pakistan. Tehran has always been interested in settlement of the existing tension between India and Pakistan and has made great efforts to that end, Khatami concluded. <http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=50527 <http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=50527&NewsKi nd=Current%20Affairs> &NewsKind=Current%20Affairs> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
