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WaPo: Rice: Attacking Iran Is 'Not on Agenda'
Despite tough new language on Iran, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that a U.S. attack on the Tehran regime is "simply not on the agenda" for now. After talks Friday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Rice said the United States and its allies still have "many diplomatic tools" that they will pursue "fully" to ensure that Iran's theocracy does not subvert its legal nuclear energy program to develop a nuclear weapon.
"On the other hand, if that doesn't work we'll have to kill them."
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top foreign policy officials have recently indicated that the administration intends to have a more robust policy in confronting Iran. But Rice, who is on the first stop of a week-long tour of Europe and the Middle East, said Iran is increasingly isolated and denied that the U.S. refusal to participate in Europe's disarmament talks with Tehran hampered the diplomatic initiative. Rice said on Thursday that the United States would rebuff European efforts to bring it into negotiations with Iran aimed at preventing the Islamic state from developing nuclear weapons. Flying to Europe, she told reporters that the United States was confronting the theocratic government in Tehran in "a variety of ways"
I hope ways is the new DOD shorthamd for weapons.
with "a variety of different partners"
I guess this is the new euphemism for Israel, or at least I hope so.
to end its nuclear weapons ambitions, support for Islamic extremism, interference in Iraq and human rights violations.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-04
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