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April 9, 2006
UK: Foreign Secretary Reassures the West Won't Take Action Against Iran
The UK's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw apparently believes negotiating with the mad Iranian Mullahs does not require the threath of force. Such delusion would make negotiations doomed, if negotiations over Iran's nuclear program would not be doomed to begin with: Military strike on Iran "not on agenda"
LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - A military strike against Iran is not on the agenda and the United States is committed to a negotiated solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Sunday.Straw also disagreed with comments by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who warned that civil war has started in Iraq.
The idea that Washington could launch a nuclear strike against Iran was "completely nuts", Straw said in an interview on BBC television.
Straw was responding to a report by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine that the U.S. administration was stepping up plans for a possible air strike on Iran. The White House, without denying the report, reiterated that it was pursuing a diplomatic solution to the nuclear row.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at April 9, 2006 10:11 AM
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