Kuwait (parliament) speaker says US provocative towards Iran

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

KUWAIT - The United States and other Western countries are dealing in a provocative way with Iran over its nuclear programme and should respect its sovereignty, Kuwait's parliament speaker said.

The United States has refused to rule out military action if Iran continues with attempts to enrich uranium, which Washington suspects is aimed at making an atomic bomb but the Islamic Republic says is peaceful.

Jassem al-Kharafi said the West was using double standards in the dispute by trying to stop Iran's nuclear programme while saying nothing about Israel, which is widely believed to posses the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal. The Jewish state neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons.

'I think what is happening with regard to the Iranian nuclear file involves a lot of exaggeration... and the method was provocative,' state news agency KUNA quoted Kharafi as saying late on Sunday.

'The country has its status and strategy in the region and should not be threatened in the way which we saw,' he added.

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[Crowman1979]

1. Kuwait has a point here!

Hopefully they'll knock some sense into the chimp. No kuwaiti support, no oil. Guess ole Georgie is going to negotiate even harder than he did with the saudis. He'll be sore the next day! LOL

[Ghost Dog]

2. This is surely obvious to everyone

outside the USA.