Turkish prime minister says pre-emptive strike on Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities would lead to ‘disaster in entire region, would have unforeseeable consequences I would not even want to imagine’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of an Israeli strike in Iran, saying it would lead to a “disaster in the entire region.”
In an interview to Spanish newspaper El Pais published on Monday, the Turkish PM responded to a question on the results of a pre-emptive Israeli strike in the Islamic Republic saying, “this would have unforeseeable consequences that I would not even want to imagine.”
He stressed that the dispute between the West and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program must be resolved through diplomatic channels, and added that economic sanctions would also have an impact on the entire region.
“Don’t leave the negotiations table until the end of the process,” he said. In the past, Turkey has offered to mediate in talks, but the Iranians objected.
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