'Iran, West deadlock not on nuclear issue'
on 09 November, 2008 06:24:37
Prominent Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, has said that the West's main problem with Iran is not over the nuclear issue. The former Egyptian culture minister rejected a claim by Anthony Lake, a close aide of US president-elect, Barack Obama, that Arab states are not aware of “Iran's nuclear threat”, asserting instead that Iran does not pose a nuclear threat. Western ...
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