[Dialogue] Cheney: 'We will not allow' Iran nukes

[Harry Wainwright]

  MSNBC.com

 

Cheney: 'We will not allow' Iran nukes 

Vice president warns U.S. is prepared to act if regime continues on course

The Associated Press

 

Updated: 1:39 p.m. ET Oct 21, 2007

LEESBURG, Va. - 

The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear
weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. 

"Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a
terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney said in a
speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. 

He said Iran's efforts to pursue technology that would allow it to build a
nuclear weapon are obvious and that "the regime continues to practice delay
and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time." 

If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other
nations are prepared to take action. The vice president made no specific
reference to military action. 

"We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," he said. 

The U.S. and some allies accuse Iran of secretly trying to develop nuclear
weapons and have demanded it halt uranium enrichment, an important step in
the production of atomic weapons. Oil-rich Iran says its program is for
peaceful purposes including generating electricity. 

Fears of World War III
At a news conference Wednesday, President Bush said suggested that if Iran
obtained nuclear weapons, it could lead to a new world war. 

"I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it
seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them (Iran) from having
the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush said. 

Bush's spokeswoman later said the president was making not making any war
plans but rather "a rhetorical point." 

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