Miliband warns Iran over nuclear ambitions
By Brendan Carlin, Political Correspondent
David Miliband, the new Foreign Secretary, indicated last night that Gordon Brown’s Government would not shrink from confrontation with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
Mr Miliband insisted the new Government would “not retreat from the world” in the wake of Tony Blair’s departure but would be a “robust defender” of the national interest.
He also signalled Britain was preparing a tough response if Russia this week formally refused to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the man wanted by the UK authorities for the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Jack Straw, one of Mr Miliband’s predecessors as Foreign Secretary, once said that military action against Iran was “inconceivable”.
But in an interview with the Financial Times today, Mr Miliband refused to repeat the statement.
“I think that the whole of the international community wants a non-military, diplomatic solution to this problem,” he said.
“I don’t think it does any good to speculate any wider than that.”
Instead, he warned Iran that the British government would keep up a tough stance on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, insisting the Iranian regime “doesn’t have the right to set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East”.
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