Rice: Iran Out of Step With Mideast Change

Anne Gearan, The Associated Press:

As political change takes hold in several Middle Eastern countries, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that Iran's leaders "should not consider themselves immune" from such developments. ...

Iran has exported terrorism and is "out of step with a region that is trying very hard now to move toward a two-state solution" of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, she said.

"It's not just the Iranian nuclear program," Rice said after meeting with Kuwait's foreign minister.

"The Iranians should not consider themselves immune from the major changes that are going on in the region and we would hope that they would begin to engage in more stabilizing behavior," Rice said. ...