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Iraq and the UAE call to avoid the military option with Iran
16/01/2012 | (Voice of Iraq) - Sumerian News / Baghdad invited the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq Monday from Abu Dhabi to avoid the military option in the standoff with Iran, stressing that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will adversely affect exports of oil.
Zebari said in a statement to the press, "there is tension explicit and clear through the moves and Iraq is not with the escalation and to address these disparities through military force, but through dialogue and calm."
The president of Iran warned on 27 December last 2011 of the impose sanctions on Iran's oil exports because of its nuclear program will lead to stop the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, and caused threats to naval maneuvers in the Strait itself lasted several days. Zebari said "there is a crisis a lot of confidence with Iran and we consider ourselves to countries bordering the Persian Gulf and are influenced by tension and escalation especially that 90% of Iraq's oil exports pass through Hormuz, "saying that" all would be affected by the escalation. "
For his part, Sheikh Abdullah said, "I do not think escalation is useful for the region or to the stability of markets," pointing out that "the international economic situation is in crisis, not useful straining the international markets such escalations. " The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates said: "Any talk about the waterways and in particular of Hormuz has implications for us and we will make every effort so to defuse this crisis."
The UAE to build a pipeline for oil in June, allows the export of oil without pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The first deputy to Iranian President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, threatened in late December the West, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the passage of oil only eight from the Gulf to world markets, if the State imposed sanctions on Iranian oil exports, which intends to EU countries resorted to in the last week of the month of January.
The report said the International Atomic Energy Agency last November 2011 The Iran installed centrifuges to enrich uranium at a facility Fordo in the heart of the mountain base, former military and that nuclear materials were transported there, indicating the possible start enrichment soon on this site, noting that Iran had enriched uranium to the degree of purity of 20%, which Western countries say it's more than you need peaceful nuclear energy, but the degree of purity of 20 per cent is not sufficient to make a bomb.
Israel said the nuclear-armed Iran would represent a threat to its existence, while Iran has threatened that its response to any military action would be "painful." The international community accuses Tehran of using its civilian nuclear program declared to conceal a plan to develop atomic weapons pose a serious threat to the security of the region, while the United Nations continues to impose sanctions on Tehran over this file and for not allowing international inspectors to visit centers of reactors to determine their nature, and as Iran has repeatedly denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, stressing that the aim of its nuclear program is strictly civilian approved the production of over 4,500 kilograms of enriched uranium since 2007, an amount sufficient to produce four nuclear weapons , according to estimates by experts.
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16/01/2012 | (Voice of Iraq) - Sumerian News / Baghdad invited the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq Monday from Abu Dhabi to avoid the military option in the standoff with Iran, stressing that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will adversely affect exports of oil.
Zebari said in a statement to the press, "there is tension explicit and clear through the moves and Iraq is not with the escalation and to address these disparities through military force, but through dialogue and calm."
The president of Iran warned on 27 December last 2011 of the impose sanctions on Iran's oil exports because of its nuclear program will lead to stop the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, and caused threats to naval maneuvers in the Strait itself lasted several days. Zebari said "there is a crisis a lot of confidence with Iran and we consider ourselves to countries bordering the Persian Gulf and are influenced by tension and escalation especially that 90% of Iraq's oil exports pass through Hormuz, "saying that" all would be affected by the escalation. "
For his part, Sheikh Abdullah said, "I do not think escalation is useful for the region or to the stability of markets," pointing out that "the international economic situation is in crisis, not useful straining the international markets such escalations. " The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates said: "Any talk about the waterways and in particular of Hormuz has implications for us and we will make every effort so to defuse this crisis."
The UAE to build a pipeline for oil in June, allows the export of oil without pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The first deputy to Iranian President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, threatened in late December the West, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the passage of oil only eight from the Gulf to world markets, if the State imposed sanctions on Iranian oil exports, which intends to EU countries resorted to in the last week of the month of January.
The report said the International Atomic Energy Agency last November 2011 The Iran installed centrifuges to enrich uranium at a facility Fordo in the heart of the mountain base, former military and that nuclear materials were transported there, indicating the possible start enrichment soon on this site, noting that Iran had enriched uranium to the degree of purity of 20%, which Western countries say it's more than you need peaceful nuclear energy, but the degree of purity of 20 per cent is not sufficient to make a bomb.
Israel said the nuclear-armed Iran would represent a threat to its existence, while Iran has threatened that its response to any military action would be "painful." The international community accuses Tehran of using its civilian nuclear program declared to conceal a plan to develop atomic weapons pose a serious threat to the security of the region, while the United Nations continues to impose sanctions on Tehran over this file and for not allowing international inspectors to visit centers of reactors to determine their nature, and as Iran has repeatedly denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, stressing that the aim of its nuclear program is strictly civilian approved the production of over 4,500 kilograms of enriched uranium since 2007, an amount sufficient to produce four nuclear weapons , according to estimates by experts.
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