Armitage says diplomacy the best path on Iran issue

Excerpt of an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

MAXINE McKEW: Is there something of an unspoken wish that the Israelis will take care of this in the same way they bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981?

RICHARD ARMITAGE: I think people speculate that are irresponsible, this is not, by the way - the Iranian situation doesn't lend itself to an Osirak solution as we saw in 1981.

Many of the facilities are underground or disguised and you could never be sure that if you took such a chance that you would get any, much less most, of the Iranian nuclear program.

The best way to resolve this is through diplomacy.

There has to be, in diplomacy, a bad or tough cop and right now that role is regulated to us. more

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