Warning against Military Action
(16/04/2007 - www.iran-daily.com)
Jordan’s one-time heir to the throne warned on Saturday that attacking Iran would open the way for extremists to destabilize the Middle East.
“If, God forbid, a strike takes place against Iran in the next few months, which is very likely, then it would be too late because a front of extremists--populist extremists--will destabilize the regimes of the region as a whole,“ said Prince Hassan, the uncle of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, during a speech in Amman, AP reported.
American officials have repeatedly rejected using military action against Iran.
Jordan and the six-nation Persian Gulf Cooperation Council recently announced plans to develop their own peaceful nuclear programs.
Hassan talked during opening remarks at a three-day conference sponsored by his Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies and the Academy of Latinity.
He is the brother of the late King Hussein and one-time heir to Jordan’s royal throne. But he was dismissed as crown prince in a 1999 royal shakeup by Hussein shortly before his death that year.