The United States would like to see a different kind of regime in Iran, which will move away from âpursuing an aggressive agenda based on terrorism and weapons of mass destructionâ, Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser to US President George W. Bush, told yesterdayâs Financial Times. But Riceâs statement of US ambitions in an interview with the paper fell short of the desire for regime change in Tehran. The FT said, however, that Rice had signaled that Washington was determined to address an Iranian threat, describing it in similar terms to that formerly posed by Saddam Husseinâs toppled regime in Iraq. Rice told the paper that the White House wanted to see an elected government in Tehran which meets the demands of the Iranian people for âa regime which protects the rights of women, which is forward looking and modern.â
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