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By Scott Stearns
White House
31 March 2006
President Bush is offering to help Iran after three earthquakes there killed at least 66 people.
George Bush
President Bush expressed his condolences for the loss of life and said his thoughts and prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones. He offered humanitarian1 assistance for those affected2 by the earthquakes in Iran despite his opposition3 to what he says is Tehran's goal of developing a nuclear weapon.
"We obviously have our differences with the Iranian government but we do care about the suffering of the Iranian people," he said.
Iranian men search rubble4 after earthquake devastated5 village of Khalegh Ali, Friday
Three earthquakes struck western Iran overnight Thursday, flattening6 homes, destroying villages and injuring more than a thousand people. The official news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered all available resources to the stricken region.
Speaking at the close of a two-day summit with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts, President Bush repeated his opposition to Iran enriching uranium, pointing to a statement this week by the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council as a sign of international unity7.
"There is common agreement that the Iranians should not have a nuclear weapon, the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, or the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon," he said. "And the reason there is common agreement is because the Iranian government with such a weapon as it is now constituted would pose a serious threat to world security."
China and Russia agreed to the statement criticizing Iran's nuclear program and calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency to report back within 30 days on whether Tehran is curtailing8 that work.
But Beijing and Moscow are less enthusiastic about Washington's plans for economic sanctions if Iran does not comply.
President Bush says the international community agrees on the goal of stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. He says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is now working with Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany on how best to achieve that goal.
Iran says it has the right to a nuclear program that it says is solely9 for the peaceful civilian10 purpose of generating electricity.
1 humanitarian | |
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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2 affected | |
adj.不自然的,假装的 | |
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3 opposition | |
n.反对,敌对 | |
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4 rubble | |
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾 | |
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v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的 | |
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n. 修平 动词flatten的现在分词 | |
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n.团结,联合,统一;和睦,协调 | |
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v.截断,缩短( curtail的现在分词 ) | |
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adv.仅仅,唯一地 | |
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10 civilian | |
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的 | |
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