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Published on July 02, 2008
U.S. PLAYS DOWN WORRIES ABOUT ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN
- U.S., Iranian and Western diplomats played down worries about a looming Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on Tuesday after reports of heightened tensions rattled nerves and helped drive oil prices near record highs. "The military option is the last thing that we need to do and it will not be used easily," said a Western diplomat in Tel Aviv. "I don’t think there will be an attack in the next six months." Concern about a confrontation flared again on Tuesday when ABC News reported that an unnamed senior U.S. defense official said there was an increasing likelihood that Israel would attack Iran over its nuclear program, which could prompt Tehran to retaliate against both Israel and the United States. U.S. officials sharply dismissed the ABC News report. "I have no information that would substantiate that," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said. "The official State Department reaction to that is one, laughter, and saying ‘Coward, get out there and talk about in on the record if you’ve actually got something to say,’" he said, referring to the unnamed official cited in the report. “You know, I need to find this guy because, apparently, he’s an expert on the Israeli military, an expert on Iran and an expert on nuclear issues at the same time. Let’s get him a Nobel Prize,” he said, Reuters reports.
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Today in Armenian history- 1804 The 5000-strong Russian force beseiges Yerevan.
- 1833 Birth of Grigor Chilinkiryan (public figure and translator) in Smyrna. He died in 1923.
- 1833 Death of Ghookas Inchichyan (armenologist and geographer) in Venice. He was born in 1758.
- 1840 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 7.0) occurs at Ararat and affects a 5000 sq. km. area. It kills 1000 people.
- 1915 Russian forces retreat, resulting in a massive flight of Armenians from Van and Vaspoorakan. There are huge losses when the Turkish army massacres the remnants of the Armenian population.
- 1921 The Red Army reaches Goris.
- 1946 The first group of Diasporan Armenians are repatriated to Armenia.
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