New Delhi: US President George Bush has stepped up the rhetoric against Iran after Russia has delivered the first batch of nuclear fuel for Iran's controversial Bushehr atomic plant. He's called Iran "a threat to peace".
“I think Iran is a danger to peace and I believe that for a variety of reasons. I believe that with a weapon they would be very destabilizing. I believe with a weapon, we need to take their threat seriously about what they have said about one of our allies, Israel, and therefore my attitude hadn't changed toward Iran,” says Bush.
Bush also said Russian shipments of nuclear fuel to Tehran meant that Iran does not need to enrich uranium. Russia is helping Iran build a nuclear reactor at Bushehar. The two sides agreed to finish building the plant after years of delay.
The UN has approved the Russian nuclear fuel deliveries while demanding that Iran halt uranium enrichment. Meanwhile, Bush says his government is working on another resolution against Iran.
The United States, several European nations and Israel suspect Iran has been trying to acquire nuclear weapons, but Iran denies its nuclear program is for anything but peaceful purposes.
A recent US intelligence summary concluded that, contrary to earlier suspicions, Iran halted its nuclear weapons development in 2003.
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