Jack Straw: Attack on Iran Would Be Like 9/11
Britain’s UN Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said that an Israeli or US attack on Iran to preempt Iran’s nuclear weapons program would be comparable to September 11.
To the dismay of Bush administration officials, British U.N. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw all but ruled out a military response to Iran’s nuclear program. In an interview with the BBC, Straw was asked if the world would support U.S. or Israeli military action against Iran.
“Not only is that inconceivable,” Straw replied, “but I think the prospect of it [an attack] happening is inconceivable.”
Straw went so far as to imply that an Israeli or U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would amount to another Sept. 11.
“I don’t think, please God, that we are going to see in the next four years the most cataclysmic event for international relations that we have seen in 60 years which occurred on 11 September 2001,” he said.