President Bush still says all options are on the table...
Is the United States working under the assumption that it will take Iran anywhere from 7-10 yrs in order to make a nuclear bomb?!?
...Rice told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago that U.S. President George W. Bush “doesn't take his options off the table” in tackling the Iranian nuclear issue.
She said that Washington was hoping to “mobilise” and “unify” the international community around the view that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and that in order to dissuade Tehran from such a goal the international community must be prepared to use “political” and “economic” measures at hand.
“I think that we have options at our disposal that are not even necessarily fully within the Security Council. You know that there are states that have been saying that if we don't get meaningful measures inside the Security Council, perhaps a coalition of the willing will think about other financial or political measures that could be taken”, Rice said.
“We don't have any problem, any quarrel with the Iranian people. … The problem is that the Iranian leadership, the regime, is isolating itself with its behaviour. You can simply read the statements of any government in response to what the Iranians just did to see that the Iranians are isolating themselves”, Rice said. ...
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