US missile defence shield threatens all Asia: Iran

BISHKEK (AFP) - A proposed US missile defence shield in central Europe would threaten "all Asia", Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday at a regional summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.

"Such a plan goes beyond threatening one country. It concerns most of the continent, all Asia," he said at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

According to Ahmadinejad, the six countries of the SCO, including China, are also threatened.