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Rice: Iran is a problem that must be dealt with
IranMania.com ^
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Posted on 12/13/2005 10:20:24 PM PST by F14 Pilot
LONDON, December 14 (IranMania) - Iran has become a problem for Middle East stability on several fronts that the international community will have to address, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, according to AFP.
Taking questions after a speech on Iraq to the Heritage Foundation, Rice again took Tehran to task on a range of issues, from its suspected nuclear arms program to its anti-democratic clerical regime.
"I do think that it has to be said, it has to be spoken, that Iran is a problem for a stable and democratizing Middle East," she said. "And the international community will have to find a way to deal with that."
The chief US diplomat reiterated US complaints the Iranians were trying to clandestinely interfere in neighboring Iraq, where Shiite Muslims are in the majority.
She said they were also supporting the Iraqi insurgency as well as backing Islamic militants opposing efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The recent verbal assaults by Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Israel "have, I think, sharpened the contradictions and made clear that this regime is out of step with the international community," Rice said.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; americans4afreeiran; condirice; democracy; iran; islam; israel; mideast; nukes; peace; people; terrorism; usa
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posted on
12/13/2005 10:20:27 PM PST
by
F14 Pilot
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posted on
12/13/2005 10:21:37 PM PST
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: F14 Pilot
Rice: Iran is a problem that must be dealt with p>Cnsidering Iran' s nuclear ambitions that is an understatement. They must be stopped. Now the time is, US and/or Israel.
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posted on
12/13/2005 10:23:42 PM PST
by
Paul_Denton
(The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)
To: F14 Pilot
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posted on
12/13/2005 10:32:48 PM PST
by
BigFinn
(Treason's Greetings---Howard Dean & Ramsey Clark)
To: F14 Pilot
Iran will fold like a cheap suit.
I'm curious how the Russians are dealing with this. Yeah, they're selling radars and such to the Iranians for mucho bucks-but are the Russians giving us the work arounds?
Both sides of the fence indeed.
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posted on
12/13/2005 10:42:47 PM PST
by
zarf
(The BCS sucks.)
To: F14 Pilot
"The recent verbal assaults by Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Israel 'have, I think, sharpened the contradictions and made clear that this regime is out of step with the international community,' Rice said."
Rice talks. She says that by threatening to wipe Israel from the map, "this regime" is not conforming with the rest of the UN chickens. That's so rough and tough--enough to get sensitive new age guys (SNAGs) aroused and cheering to make her our next president.
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posted on
12/13/2005 11:07:53 PM PST
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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posted on
12/14/2005 4:56:56 AM PST
by
SJackson
(There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
To: familyop
If only Condi and W would hold Iran, the Pallies and Syria as accountable as they do Israel.
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posted on
12/14/2005 5:03:24 AM PST
by
sargunner
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