A Message to Tehran
Charles Johnson
Mon Jan 17, 2005 at 6:16 pm PST • Views: 269
Bush Won’t Rule Out Action Against Iran Over Nukes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Monday he would not rule out military action against Iran if that country was not more forthcoming about its suspected nuclear weapons program.
“I hope we can solve it diplomatically, but I will never take any option off the table,” Bush said in an interview with NBC News when asked if he would rule out the potential for military action against Iran “if it continues to stonewall the international community about the existence of its nuclear weapons program.”
Iran denies it has been trying to make nuclear weapons and says its nuclear program is geared solely to producing electricity.
Bush’s comments followed Pentagon criticism on Monday of a published report that it was mounting reconnaissance missions inside Iran to identify potential nuclear and other targets.
“The Iranian regime’s apparent nuclear ambitions and its demonstrated support for terrorist organizations is a global challenge that deserves much more serious treatment than Seymour Hersh provides in the New Yorker article titled ”The Coming Wars,“ the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Lawrence DiRita, said in a statement.
Hersh’s article, published on Sunday, was ”so riddled with errors of fundamental fact that the credibility of his entire piece is destroyed,” DiRita said.
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