[DPA/Ha'aretz] Iran is "hell-bent" on trying to build a nuclear bomb and should try to resolve its domestic problems rather than threaten Israel, British Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said Tuesday in parliament. "When I speak with the Iranian ambassador, for example, he tries to tell me that [Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be 'wiped off the map'] is a kind of a rhetorical device." "I don't think that's what international diplomacy can afford to be about these days. Especially not from a country that is hell-bent, as far as I can read it, on developing a nuclear bomb," he said.
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