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"Painful consequences"?
What the hell does that mean?
Does it mean that Tehran is going to be "shocked and awed" soon? Is Tehran the next Baghdad? Could it be that Bush is considering attacking Iran as he withdraws our troops from Iraq? You know, just shifting the troops?
Good Lord, deja vu all over again!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060305/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_usa_dc
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday warned that Iran faced "painful consequences" if it continued sensitive nuclear activities and said the problem would become increasingly difficult to resolve if the international community did not confront it.
Ahead of what could be a crucial international meeting on Iran on Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton reaffirmed that the United States will use "all tools at our disposal" to thwart Iran's nuclear program and is already "beefing up defensive measures" to do so.
"The Iran regime must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences," he told 4,500 delegates to the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group.
Monday's meeting of the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency governing board is expected to take stock of Iran's continued defiance of U.S. and European demands to end sensitive weapons-related uranium enrichment activity and then hand the case over to the UN Security Council.
The United States is discussing a 30- to 60-day deadline for Tehran to halt its nuclear program and cooperate with international inspectors or face intensified pressure in the security council, a U.S. official told Reuters.
Iran on Sunday again threatened to begin large-scale nuclear enrichment if the case is taken up by the security council.
Bolton said Iran poses a "comprehensive threat" as a state-sponsor of terrorism and a nuclear aspirant, and so "we must be prepared to ... use all the tools at our disposal to stop the threat."
'LONGER WE WAIT ... HARDER IT WILL BECOME TO SOLVE'
"The longer we wait to confront the threat Iran poses, the harder and more intractable it will become to solve," he warned...
What the hell does that mean?
Does it mean that Tehran is going to be "shocked and awed" soon? Is Tehran the next Baghdad? Could it be that Bush is considering attacking Iran as he withdraws our troops from Iraq? You know, just shifting the troops?
"The Iran regime must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences," he told 4,500 delegates to the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group.
Good Lord, deja vu all over again!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060305/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_usa_dc
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday warned that Iran faced "painful consequences" if it continued sensitive nuclear activities and said the problem would become increasingly difficult to resolve if the international community did not confront it.
Ahead of what could be a crucial international meeting on Iran on Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton reaffirmed that the United States will use "all tools at our disposal" to thwart Iran's nuclear program and is already "beefing up defensive measures" to do so.
"The Iran regime must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences," he told 4,500 delegates to the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group.
Monday's meeting of the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency governing board is expected to take stock of Iran's continued defiance of U.S. and European demands to end sensitive weapons-related uranium enrichment activity and then hand the case over to the UN Security Council.
The United States is discussing a 30- to 60-day deadline for Tehran to halt its nuclear program and cooperate with international inspectors or face intensified pressure in the security council, a U.S. official told Reuters.
Iran on Sunday again threatened to begin large-scale nuclear enrichment if the case is taken up by the security council.
Bolton said Iran poses a "comprehensive threat" as a state-sponsor of terrorism and a nuclear aspirant, and so "we must be prepared to ... use all the tools at our disposal to stop the threat."
'LONGER WE WAIT ... HARDER IT WILL BECOME TO SOLVE'
"The longer we wait to confront the threat Iran poses, the harder and more intractable it will become to solve," he warned...