No plans for military action on Iran: Blair
LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday there were no plans for military action against Iran, but there is growing alarm at Teheran’s defiance of the international community.
Blair reiterated that, if the Islamic republic were to cooperate with the West in terms of curbing its nuclear plans and other actions, ‘a whole series of doors would open up to them.’
‘Nobody is talking or planning military intervention,’ Blair told a parliamentary committee.
‘It’s not what the international community wants, it’s not what we want,’ he said, while citing US President George W. Bush’s phrase that ‘you can’t take any option off the table.’
‘But it is important that Iran understands that at the moment it is doing two groups of things that are really unsettling the international community,’ Blair said, citing firstly the development of ‘nuclear weapons capability.’
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