Bush Assures Israel Iran Seen As ThreatBy BARRY SCHWEID
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 14, 2006; 7:11 AM
WASHINGTON -- Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will return to his
country with reassurances from the Bush administration that it is not backing
down from its view that Iran and its nuclear program are a world threat.
With Olmert at his side following a White House meeting Monday, Bush told
reporters that a nuclear-armed Iran not only would threaten Israel but loom
as an "incredibly destabilizing" threat to the region and the world.
"I recognize the threat to world peace that the Iranians pose, as does the
prime minister," Bush said.
Israel is worried that political fallout from last week's Republican election
defeat and rising calls for U.S. engagement with Iran may soften Bush's resolve
against a country whose president has said the Jewish state should be wiped
from the map.
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