Israel Matzav

Birds of a Feather Fly Together

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a visit, his first since taking office, to Syria Thursday to consolidate an old alliance made increasingly crucial as both countries face mounting US pressure and the threat of international sanctions.

Iran's standoff with the West over its nuclear program and the threat to refer it to the UN Security Council as well as Syria's own troubles over a UN investigation that implicated it in the assassination of a Lebanese politician were expected to figure high in the talks between Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad.

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French President Jaque Chirac added Thursday in a surprising comment that leaders of states who would "use terrorist means against us, just like anyone who would envisage using, in one way or another, arms of mass destruction, must understand that they would expose themselves to a firm and adapted response from us."

"This response could be conventional. It could also be of another nature," Chirac said in the speech given at a nuclear submarine base in western France. [I wonder what Chirac would say if Israel made a similar threat. CiJ]

... Iran's insistence to proceed with its peaceful nuclear activities [With its what? CiJ] have raised great concern in the European Union and the United States, which have been pushing for a referral of the issue to the UN Security Council, a first step toward possible sanctions.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:43 PM