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Placating Iran ‘will increase risk of conflict’

Placating Iran 'will increase risk of conflict'By Chris Moncrieff, PA

The Press Association, London – The West was warned today that the continued placating of Iran would significantly increase the risk of a further military conflict in the region.

The warning was issued by a conference at Westminster organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

In a statement afterwards, they said: “We are convinced that for the West to continue to placate and provide concessions to the regime in Teheran will significantly increase the risk of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and therefore a further military conflict in the region.

“We call on the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions and other binding measures against the Iranian regime and its officials.

“Democratic change in Iran through the Iranian people and their resistance represents the only means of ensuring peace and stability in the Middle East.”

The statement pointed out that in an attempt to divert attention away from its internal crises, the mullahs had stepped up their export of fundamentalism and terrorism, in particular to Iraq, while at the same time doggedly pursuing their nuclear weapons
programme.

Lord Waddington, a former Tory Home Secretary, told the conference: “The time has come for a firm policy on Iran, beginning with the imposition of comprehensive sanctions against the regime.”

And the Labour peer Lord Archer of Sandwell described the Iranian regime as “the spider in the web of international terrorism”.