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Last update - 16:27 11/07/2009
Obama: World won't allow Iran to develop nukes
By The Associated Press
Tags: Iran, Israel News 

U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday the world would not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, a day after a senior Iranian official vowed his country would not back down "even one step" over its nuclear work.

"We're not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of a nuclear weapon... and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act," Obama said at the close of the G8 summit in Italy.

The president stressed that he and others were not looking for their summit partners to embrace sanctions at this week's meeting.
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Instead, he said, "What we wanted was exactly what we got - a statement of condemnation about Iran's actions in the wake of its disputed presidential election."

In comments published Thursday, Ali Akbar Velayati, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's top adviser on international affairs, said Western countries did not want the Islamic state to have peaceful nuclear activities.

Obama said Friday that G8 leaders voiced their concern about what he called the appalling events surrounding the recent elections and the violence that followed.

"The leaders assembled at L'Aquila also addressed the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran," he said, "with a strong statement calling on Iran to fulfill its responsibilities without delay."

"This notion that we were trying to get sanctions or that this was a forum
where we could get sanctions was not accurate," the president said.

"I think the real story here was consensus in that [G8] statement, including Russia, which doesn't make statements like that lightly," he said. "Now the other story there was the agreement that we will reevaluate Iran's posture towards negotiating the cessation of a nuclear weapons policy."

"We'll evaluate that at the G20 meeting in September," Obama said. "I think that what that does is, it provides a time frame. The international community has said, 'Here'a door you can walk thorugh that allows you to lessen tensions and more fully join the international community.'"

He added: "If Iran chooses not to walk through that door, then you have on record the G8 to begin with and, I think, potentially a lot of other countries."

Obama said his hope is that the Iranian leadership will recognize that world opinion is clear.


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      2.   Obama and Iran - no nukes 17:14  |  DT 10/07/09
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      5.   Iran nukes and Obama 18:04  |  Rigoletto 10/07/09
      6.   Barack H. Obama 18:35  |  Albrecht Klein 10/07/09
      7.   Obama.Iran will develop nuclear missiles 19:50  |  Joshua 10/07/09
      8.   And if you believe Obama.... 19:56  |  Charles 10/07/09
      9.   I`m hoping hope against hope 20:05  |  Akiva P 10/07/09
      10.   The Great Pretenders 20:06  |  Cool B 10/07/09
      11.   lol 20:17  |  Lolza Minnelli 10/07/09
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      13.   Nobama is proving himself to be of the same cloth as Jimmy Carter 20:27  |  4:20 10/07/09
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      15.   OBAMA 21:31  |  Doug 10/07/09
      16.   He`s dreaming 23:03  |  jerri i 10/07/09
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      18.   #11..Lolza..re:lol 23:56  |  Malone 10/07/09
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      23.   What in the world do you expect Obama to do? 00:44  |  MichaelF 11/07/09
      24.   #14 - Mark Lincoln 00:51  |  MichaelF 11/07/09
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      28.   whats next? 03:20  |  ephraim 11/07/09
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      30.   Don`t any of you know WHAT the negotiations 03:50  |  Mark Lincoln 11/07/09
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      32.   What would McCain be doing had he been elected? 08:05  |  Fortuna Benmayor 11/07/09
      33.   OBAMA DREAMING 08:21  |  VIPER 11/07/09
      34.   Will economic pressure change Iran?s behavior? 08:43  |  B. Gold 11/07/09
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      36.   21 Mark Lincoln - We Don`t Need No Stinking Facts! 08:59  |  Mark of Lewiston 11/07/09
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      38.   to mark lincoln 11:04  |  ari 11/07/09
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      43.   I wonder how different is what Obama said from what Sarkozy said 13:24  |  S 11/07/09
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