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Ahmadinejad says Bush 'sowing seeds of division'
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused US President George W. Bush of bringing a "message of confrontation" during his recent tour of the Middle East.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:15 January 18, 2008
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Israel 'would not dare attack Iran'
Ahmadinejad says Israel would not dare attack Iran
Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused US President George W. Bush of bringing a "message of confrontation" during his recent tour of the Middle East.
"President George Bush sent a message... of rift, a message of sowing the seeds of division. It is a message of confrontation," he told Al Jazeera TV.
Bush had warned Arab allies that Iran was the world's top sponsor of terrorism and that it remained a threat. The United States accuses Iran of secretly building atomic weapons.
Ahmadinejad also said that key US ally Israel "would not dare" attack Iran. "It knows that any attack on Iranian territories would prompt a fierce response," he said.
He spoke as Israel announced it had test-fired a ballistic missile, which Israeli media said was aimed at intercepting aerial threats against the Jewish state.
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