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UK must oppose US threats to Iran, says Scottish church

Delegates at the Church of Scotland's general assembly are being urged to support a resolution, calling on Britain and the United States to preserve peace in the Middle East and to take no further action that could a military conflict with Iran.

The call comes as Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose father was a an ordained Scottish church minister, was due to speak at the annual assembly in Edinburgh Saturday.

"We will strongly urge the British government to do everything in its power to discourage the American government from undertaking any form of military strike against Iran," said Morag Mylne, convenor of the Church and Society Council (CSC) of the Scottish church.

"And if the Americans ignore that advice, then Britain must make clear its strong opposition for such a move, either by the USA as a strike or by Israel as a pre-emptive move against Iran," Mylne told Ecumenical News International.

Full story at the Islamic Republic News Agency.