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Rice defends Bush policy on Iran as 'successful'
May 21 08:24 PM US/Eastern
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday defended as
"successful" the US administration's policy on Iran after Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized its approach.
Though she sought to stay out of the presidential campaign, Rice told
re****ters that the United States and other powers agreed on what she
considers a common, effective approach to prevent Iran from obtaining a
nuclear weapon.
"I will note that the Iranian problem is not just America's problem, it
is an international issue, and it is an issue on which the international
community is united in confronting Iran with choices before it," Rice
said.
Flanked by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a US ally on Iran
and other issues, Rice recalled that Tehran must either halt its
enrichment of uranium in return for economic benefits or face
international isolation.
With its continued defiance, she said, the UN Security Council has
adopted three sanctions resolutions against Iran while the United States
has taken punitive measures of its own.
And Iran has paid an economic price with the "drying up" of international
investment in its oil industry, economic infrastructure and ex****t
credits, the secretary of state said.
"I think this is called a successful multilateral coalition of states
that have the same view" that Iran should be rewarded for its cooperation
or isolated for its defiance, Rice said.
She added: "I would like to see what other options there are for the
international community, given that this policy is one that I think is
the best course for us."
Obama has been taking aim at Republican presidential candidate John
McCain over his and President George W. Bush's policy toward Iran,
including their stated refusals to engage Wa****ngton in high-level
negotiations with Tehran.
"Thanks to George Bush's policy, Iran is the greatest threat to the
United States and Israel and the Middle East for a generation. John
McCain wants to double down on that failed policy," Obama said.
Rice refused to comment for now on Iran's offer to the United Nations to
enter "serious and targeted" negotiations with world powers on a wide
range of issues, including nuclear energy.
She said she needed to talk first with the other countries involved in
the negotiations to encourage Iran to halt nuclear enrichment. Those
countries are China, Russia, France, Britain, and Germany.
Miliband echoed her remarks.
"We don't want to get into a verbal rhetorical volleyball with these
issues. They are too serious for that," Miliband said before traveling
with Rice on Thursday to California to visit high-tech companies.
"We will all be looking very carefully obviously at the Iranian letter,
but we will also be very clear that our own package needs to be addressed
very very carefully by the Iranian regime," he said.
Miliband declined to say when and where the "refreshed" package of
proposals -- which the six powers announced earlier this month in London
-- would be presented to Iran.
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Wonderful eh?
Iran is STRONGER ... it's INFLUENCE the greatest it's ever been, Iraq
will fall into their laps like a ripe plum and we have the hapless Rice
moron, who has accomplished exactly ZERO in seven long years, touting
THAT as "success"...
You just gotta stand back and shake your head at crazy **** like this.
You just can't make stuff like this up...
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AW
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