Talk of Israeli Strike in Iran Shows Risks: Rice

al-Reuters via NYT ^ | Jan. 14, 2007 | Staff

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JERUSALEM - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that speculation about an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities underscored the risk of failing to persuade Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.

Rice, in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 television, said she believed there was still ``plenty of room for diplomacy'' in curbing an Iranian nuclear program that Western powers fear could lead to making bombs.

Asked for her view of an Israeli military operation in Iran should diplomacy fail, she replied: ``Well, I think that even talk of such just shows how very serious it would be to have Iran continue its programs unabated.''

Rice was in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as part of a regional visit to explore the chances of reviving Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking and to seek Arab help to stabilize Iraq.

Britain's Sunday Times reported a week ago that Israel had drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Israel has refused to rule out pre-emptive military action against Iran along the lines of its 1981 air strike against an atomic reactor in Iraq, though many analysts believe Iran's nuclear facilities are too much for Israel to take on alone.

Washington has said military force remains an option while insisting that its priority is to reach a diplomatic solution.

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Rice, in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 television, said she believed there was still ``plenty of room for diplomacy'' in curbing an Iranian nuclear program that Western powers fear could lead to making bombs.

Secretary Rice should read the following article:

Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims

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After reading the article and watching two Iraqi journals by our soldiers (military channel) I'm convinced that this "circle talk" is nothing more then an effort to buy time and opportunities to kill us. If we can't fight we should come home.