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The US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has labelled Iran a top threat to world peace, and warned Israel “might well decide to act first” to eliminate any nuclear threat from Tehran.
“You look around the world at potential trouble spots, Iran is right at the top of the list,” Mr Cheney said in a television interview aired on Thursday, the day George Bush was sworn in for a second term as President.
Mr Cheney, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war, said the Administration would continue to try to use diplomacy to address what he said were serious concerns about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and ties to terrorism. However, if the US and its allies fail to resolve the stand-off with Tehran diplomatically, Israel may take matters into its own hands, he said.
“Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards,” Mr Cheney said. In 1981 Israel sent warplanes to destroy Iraq’s nuclear reactor.
We don’t want a war in the Middle East, if we can avoid it,” he said. “And certainly in the case of the Iranian situation, I think everybody would be best suited by or best treated and dealt with if we could deal with it diplomatically.”
Miko Flohr, 24/01/2005