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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has urged Israel not to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear programme, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday.
Kouchner, in the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, urged the Jewish state to continue to support Western-backed sanctions and dialogue to press Iran to halt its atomic project, the Haaretz daily said. "I know that in Israel, and the Israeli army, there are those who are preparing for a military solution or an attack" aimed at halting the Iranian programme, Kouchner told the paper in an interview.
"In my opinion that's not the solution," he said, adding that the possibility of Iran achieving a nuclear weapon was also "absolutely unacceptable."
Kouchner called the risk of an Israeli strike on Iran a "danger". He said Tehran was aware Israel had said it would not wait until Iran could produce a nuclear bomb.
He said the West should pursue "talk, talk and more talk", including further sanctions to persuade Iran to stop its nuclear programme. Tehran denies seeking to build an atomic bomb, saying it only wants to generate electricity.
"I don't think the alternative is to bomb first," Kouchner said. Kouchner said France believed Iran may be able to produce one atomic weapon within two to four years. Tehran last month rejected a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding it halt its nuclear enrichment work.
Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, sees Iran's nuclear programme as a security threat, citing remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the Jewish state's demise.

Copyright Reuters, 2008

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