France, Spain rap Ahmadinejad

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France and Spain came out against the Iranian president’s prediction that Israel’s days are numbered.”I condemn them most firmly,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday in response to speech over the weekend by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in which he said there was a “countdown” to the destruction of the “Zionist regime.”Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said he would summon Iran’s ambassador to Madrid “to express to him our absolute, total rejection of those remarks.”

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