October 04, 2007	Thursday	Ramazan 21, 1428

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 3: “The American taxpayers would not allow President Bush to wage another war in the region”, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Muttaki said on Wednesday as he dismissed US threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.

He told a press conference here that such threats emerge after every six months and we do not think United States taxpayers would allow President Bush to launch another war in the region.

On Monday the New Yorker magazine reported about a plan by the Bush administration to launch surgical strikes on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, saying it has won the support of British Prime Minister GordonBrown.

The report in the magazine by the journalist Seymour Hersh states that the White House has concluded that many of its problems in Iraq are the responsibility of Tehran. But rather than conduct an unpopular all-out assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the US is planning limited air strikes, arguing that they are needed to defend soldiers in Iraq.

But at the press conference Iran’s top diplomat Mr Muttaki rejected the reports saying “ we get such reports “ and suggested they are a part of “psychological warfare” against Tehran initiated by the West.

He reinforced time and again that Iran has no intentions to produce a nuclear weapons as is being asserted in the western world saying “we have the right to develop peaceful nuclear energy which is an a accepted principle.

“We are for total nuclear disarmament in the world every country should give up nuclear weapons”, he said.