Sunday, November 04, 2007

Cracks in the wall

Bahrain Accuses Iran of Nuclear Weapons Lie -Giles Whittell

[Bahrain's] Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad has become the first Arab leader to jettison the language of diplomacy and directly accuse Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons. "While they don't have the bomb yet, they are developing it," he said - the first time one of Iran's Gulf neighbors has accused it of lying about its nuclear program.

In a newspaper editorial this summer, a close associate of President Ahmadinejad rekindled an old claim on Bahrain as Iran's 14th province, with echoes of Saddam Hussein's designs on Kuwait in the late 1980s...
(Times-UK)

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