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Arabia and Egypt are powerful countries in the Muslim world. When you look at the
relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Egypt and Iran, you may see some
problems and some misunderstandings. What Iran has to do is explain itself very well to
the Sunni nations in the Persian Gulf. If it cannot do that and fails in this effort, it has no
chance to be a regional power in the Persian Gulf. Yes, it has a huge missile capacity, big
population, is a big country, but if you cannot talk with your neighbors, what are you
going to do in the region? It is not a job that must be done only by Iran and Turkey. As I
said, we need cooperation in the region. And I think the best address for this cooperation
is the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Q: Are Turkish officials and citizens concerned about Iran’s military capabilities or its
civilian nuclear program?
A: The politicians say that we definitely won’t accept an Iranian nuclear program with
military aims. Because of the good relationship between the AKP (Justice and
Development Party) in Turkey and Iran’s government, they see each other very
frequently, but at the end of the day, Turkey and Iran are still rivals in the region. One of
them is the center of the Sunni world due to the heritage from the Ottoman Empire, and
the other one is a Shia center. At the end of the day, they are rivals in the region. This is
the idea of politicians. Back to the people’s ideas, they definitely support Iran’s nuclear
program for some reasons. They say, “If Israel has nuclear weapons and nobody says
anything about this program and they do whatever they want, so what is the problem
with Iran?” Or America has come from ten thousand kilometers away from the region,
they have killed more than one million people in Iraq and nobody can say any word to
the American people. So who cares about Iran? So, the man in the street supports Iran’s
nuclear program in Turkey. (Tehran News)
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