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"Mr President, allow me to start by quoting from the Iranian media: 'Thanks to negotiations with Europe we gained another year in which the Natanz project reached a stage where a small number of centrifuges could operate. The UCF in Isfahan is complete and UF4 and UF6 gases are produced. We converted 36 tonnes of yellow cake into gas. Iran began talks with the WTO. Iran was recognised as one of the countries with a nuclear fuel cycle. We managed to make far greater progress than North Korea'.
That was said on Iranian Channel 2 on 4 August by Mr Hussein Mussavian, the head of the Iranian nuclear delegation. There is no military option; there is no regime change option. Economic sanctions will only create a much larger disaster than the one in Iraq. What can we do after Russia's expected refusal of referral to the UNSC? We can only try to strip Iran of international recognition, immediately block its WTO entry, impose tough diplomatic sanctions, exclude it from international sporting, cultural and social events and the Olympic Games. Those are the only tools we have.
As the head of Parliament's Israeli delegation, I wholeheartedly congratulate both the Israeli and Palestinian Governments. I also welcome the EU statement on this engagement. We promise to monitor daily the use of the EUR 60 million hopefully spent before the Palestinian elections.
We all support the conditional Syrian association agreement as the last wedge to keep the door open. Egypt is the cradle of Middle Eastern politics. Clear, tough and immediate pressure for democratic conditions for democratic candidates in democratic elections will be more use than any Iraq-style military intervention. Nevertheless, legitimisation of the current process in Iraq is a must if civil war is to be prevented.
Twelve months from now, the Middle East will be a different region. The threats to our security are enormous. We have to stop immediately making a distinction between external relations and our internal security, between cutting out the roots of extremism and counter-terrorism."@en1
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