[Reuters/New York Times] France and Spain strongly condemned President Ahmadinejad of Iran on Monday for saying that a "countdown button" had been pressed to bring about Israel's destruction. "If these remarks were indeed made, they are unacceptable," said Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister. "I condemn them most firmly." He added that Israel's right to exist could not be called into question. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said he had asked the ministry's political director to express to Iran's ambassador "our absolute, total rejection of those remarks."
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