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UN chief warns Ahmadinejad

Iranian president accuses West of abusing UN veto

Agencies
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the dangers of incendiary rhetoric when the two men met in New York on Sunday before this week's annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly.
"The secretary-general drew attention to the potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric, counter-rhetoric and threats from various countries in the Middle East," Ban's press office said in a statement.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted as saying on Sunday that Iran could launch a preemptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites and criticized US President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Iran getting the atomic bomb.
Iran denies that it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful, aimed at generating electricity.
The UN statement said Ban told Ahmadinejad that Iran should "take the measures necessary to build international confidence in the exclusively
peaceful nature of its nuclear program."
Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday attacked Western powers for misusing their UN veto power in their nuclear showdown with his country and for allowing "sacrilege" against Islam.
Ahmadinejad launched his virulent attack at a United Nations debate on the rule of law at which he said the United States, Britain and France "violate the basic rights and freedoms of other nations."
"The discriminatory privilege of the veto right
enjoyed by some members of the Security Council lacks legitimacy," he declared, speaking at UN headquarters in New York on the eve of the main UN GeneralAssembly debate.
"And that is why the Security Council has failed to establish justice and ensure sustainable peace and security in the world," he said.
"Some members of the Security Council with veto rights have chosen silence with regard to the nuclear warheads of a fake regime while at the same time they impede scientific progress of other nations," he said.
This was an implicit reference to Iran's regional foe Israel, which has an undeclared nuclear weapons program of its own.
Western powers believe Iran is enriching uranium with a view to building a nuclear weapon, and have imposed tough economic sanctions on the Islamic regime, but Ahmadinejad accused them of abusing their UN powers.
Britain, France and Germany have officially called for new European Union sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats said.
The foreign ministers of the three countries wrote to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last week calling for tougher measures as the showdown with Tehran becomes more tense, a European diplomat told AFP Sunday on condition of anonymity.