NUCLEAR POWER: FINI-LIVNI, IRAN A GLOBAL THREAT

(AGI) - Rome, 22 March - The Iranian Ayatollah regime is a threat not only to Israel, but to the whole world, agreed the Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini and his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni, who met in Rome today. Mrs Livni, in particular, said that Iran is looking to "gain time" and that Iranian nuclear power "is a threat not only for Israel, but for the whole world" and that it is therefore necessary to "bring an end to this case before Tehran can acquire the knowledge to build nuclear arms". The Iranian president, Ahmad Amadinejad, "speaks of anti-semitism, denies the Holocaust, says that he can never recognise the State of Israel and that he has some ideas on how to bring an end to its existence". This is why, Fini echoed, Italy and Israel are "agreed" in maintaining that "maximum unity and firmness are the only way possible to reach a situation which does not offer reasons for concern which today the international community suffers". (AGI ONLINE)