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Iran's FM official: NATO's radar system in Turkey not to guarantee security in region

Iran Materials 8 September 2011 11:16 (UTC +04:00)
A NATO's early-warning radar system deployed in the Turkish territory will not guarantee the stability and security both in the region and Turkey itself.
Iran's FM official: NATO's radar system in Turkey not to guarantee security in region

Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 8 /Trend/

A NATO's early-warning radar system deployed in the Turkish territory will not guarantee the stability and security both in the region and Turkey itself, Iran's Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, IRIB News reported.

Mehmanparast said NATO's increasing presence in the region will undermine the stability in the regional countries.

Iran expects its friendly and neighboring countries not to pursue policy that will lead to a crisis between Tehran and them, he added.

US Defense Department has said an 'early warning' radar system belonging to the Washington-led military alliance of NATO will become operational in Turkey by the end of 2011.

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal announced the country's intention to host the apparatus on Sept. 2. Following Ankara's announcement, Russia criticized the plan and denounced NATO's efforts to advance eastward.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Turkey's collaboration would mark another step in the direction of the deployment "of the European segment of a global US missile defense system."

In September 2010, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposed to develop a 200-million-euro (253-million-dollar) US-backed missile system around Europe against possible attacks by "rogue states."

The NATO chief then named Iran's nuclear program as one of the reasons that justify the necessity of a missile system.

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