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\’Ban\’s participation in Iran confab paved way for others\’

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 A number of world leaders who were going to boycott the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit currently taking place in Tehran changed their mind when UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced he would attend, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Monday.

Ayalon, who declined to say which leaders he was referring to, said that the argument used by these statesmen was that they could not boycott the meeting if Ban attended.
Ban is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday to take part in the summit of some 120 countries who make up the NAM.

"We still have the highest respect for Ban," Ayalon said. "We will always work with him on issues of mutual interest. But we believe it is a grave error for him to go to Tehran and honor a regime that is anti-Semitic, that has violated six UN Security Council resolutions, that has threatened to destroy another member state, and that continues to provoke and challenge norms of the international community."

Ayalon rejected those justifying Ban\’s visit by saying he will sent a strong message to the Iranians, by saying that "despotic regimes know how to manipulate messages and legitimize itself in the eyes of its own people."

The deputy foreign minister deflected criticism by those saying that Ban\’s decision to go to Tehran, despite appeals by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to do so, is a failure of Israeli diplomacy.

Netanyahu, he said, did what he had to. "We can only ask," he said.

The summit began Sunday at the level of "experts" and deputy foreign ministers, will continue Tuesday and Wednesday with foreign ministers, and conclude Thursday and Friday at the level of heads of state.

Reuters cited an Iranian official saying that Iran might allow diplomats in town for the summit visit a military base suspected of housing nuclear experiments.

When asked about the chance that diplomats from NAM would visit the Parchin military base, Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh, a deputy foreign minister, said: "Such a visit is not customary in such meetings … however at the request of authorities, the country of Iran would be ready for such a visit," Reuters quoted the Iranian government-linked news agency Young Journalists Club as reporting.

The International Atomic Energy Agency\’s (IAEA) request to date to inspect Parchin has repeatedly been refused by the Iranians, who claim it is a conventional military complex, but has so far refused to grant the agency access to the site.

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