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ElBaradei warns against strikes on Iranian nuclear sites

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna. June 21, IRNA
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Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei Energy Agency, told Al Arabiya television that he would quit his job in the event of a military strike on Iran.

"It would turn the region into a fireball," he said.

In Moscow on Friday, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov urged dialogue rather than confrontation with Iran and said that the United States and Israel had not offered any proof that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

"So far we have not seen any," Mr. Lavrov said, according to Interfax news agency.


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