funny
Ummm, so i saw on the tv, that Assad is under pressure to 'prove' to the international community that iran is nuke weapon free.
"PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday asked the Syrian president to help resolve the crisis over Iran's nuclear program by persuading Tehran to cooperate with the international community.
Syria and Iran have good relations, but President Bashar Assad expressed doubt that his intervention could help.
At a joint news conference, Sarkozy said he had asked Assad to "convince Iran to show proof of its intentions."
The international community has asked Tehran to stop enriching uranium, which can be used to make nuclear weapons. The United Nations has imposed sanctions on Tehran for failing to stop. But Iran insists its nuclear program is for civilian, peaceful use.
The West most recently offered a package of incentives to persuade Iran to comply.
Assad said that "we will transmit" the request from France to Tehran. However, he reiterated the Syrian position: "that Iran has no intention of possessing nuclear arms."
"I was very frank (with Sarkozy)," Assad said at the news conference a day before a one-day summit of 43 European and Mediterranean nations. He added that "we cannot talk about something that we know nothing about."
"What interests us," Assad said, "is to find a political solution. ... We want to see the Middle East region free of all arms of mass destruction."
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"PARIS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday a military attack on Iran over its nuclear program would have grave consequences for the United States, Israel and the world. Speculation of a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities has mounted following a report that Israel staged an air force exercise which was a rehearsal for such an attack. "It will cost the United States and the planet dear," Assad said in an interview with France Inter radio, adding that such an attack, if it occurred, would ha
ve an impact on Israel.
Israel will pay directly the price of this war. Iran has said so. The problem is not the action and reaction. The problem is that when one starts such action in the Middle East, one cannot manage the reactions that can spread out over years or even decades," said Assad who came to Paris for the EU-Mediterranean summit. Assad said logic would dictate that there would be no attack on Iran because of the serious repercussions, but such reasoning was not necessarily shared by the current US administration.
This administration is an administration whose doctrine is a warmonger's doctrine. It does not reason with our logic, ours and that of most European countries, most countries in the world," Assad said. The Syrian president said he would respond to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's request and use his good relations with Iran to help resolve its nuclear stand-off with the West. "We are going to have discussions with our Iranian friends to get to the heart of the matter, to the details. This is the first time that we had been asked to play a role."