Iran anxious to obtain nukes

Asked by Germany's Der Spiegel weekly how to prevent Iran from developing a military nuclear program, Musharraf said: "I do not know. They are very anxious to have the bomb."

But a preventive war against Tehran would lead to "a disaster considering the current state of the world," the Pakistani leader said.

"It would provoke a rebellion in the Muslim world. Why open up new fronts?" he was quoted by the weekly as saying.

Musharraf insisted that Pakistan, which already has nuclear weapons, was against proliferation.