Israel’s president said international terrorists could benefit from the Iranian nuclear program. “We cannot allow a totalitarian country, an exporter of international terrorism, to have nuclear capacity,” Moshe Katsav said in an interview with Spain’s ABC daily newspaper published Monday. “It would be the first step towards atomic bombs, for example, falling into the hands of Hezbollah, Hamas or Al-Qaida terrorists.”
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