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Russia: Western strike on Iran would be 'catastrophe'

JANUARY 18, 2012 11:52

MOSCOW - A Western military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" that would aggravate dangerous divisions already present in the Muslim world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

When asked at an annual news conference whether the United States and its allies would be a military strike on Iran, Lavrov said: "On the chances of whether this catastrophe will happen or not you should ask those who repeatedly talk about this."

"I have no doubt that it would pour fuel on a fire which is already smoldering, the hidden smoldering fire of Sunni-Shi'ite confrontation, and beyond that (it would cause) a chain reaction -- I don't know where it would stop," he said.

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