Saturday, November 06, 2004

Bush win puts US on collision course with Iran - Sydney Morning Hearld

Here are a few excerpts.
Last week the Los Angeles Times quoted Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA Middle East analyst turned conservative commentator, as saying: "I've heard discussion of between 20 and 40 [suspected Iranian nuclear] sites you'd want to hit to deter the program."

The Administration was "very seriously" studying the possibility of military action against Iran, said Michael Rubin, a former US adviser in Baghdad who is a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. ...

British, French and German diplomats were downcast about the prospects for a meeting in Paris yesterday, at which they would again offer an Iranian delegation a range of incentives if Tehran agreed to abandon its plans for enriching uranium.

These talks have been going on for three years, but all Straw would say before the Paris meeting was: "It is difficult negotiating with Iran." more

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