‘US must do everything it can to fell Iran govt’

Last Updated: Monday, November 07, 2011, 13:18

Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Washington, Iranian government

‘US must do everything it can to fell Iran govt’

Washington: Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Washington should consider tougher penalties against Tehran and should ‘be doing everything possible to bring the Iranian government down.’

Calling the Iranian regime “the poster child for state sponsorship of terrorism,” Rice said one way to confront Iran would be to remain in Iraq.

“This is one of the downsides of having our forces out of Iraq, because we can confront the Iranians in Iraq,” Fox News quoted Rice, as saying.

“Frankly, I think it would help the regional balance to have a residual American presence there. We need to find a way to help the Iraqis sustain themselves through this period and to deal with their somewhat meddlesome neighbor in Iran,” she added.

Rice also said that the Iranian government is trying to get a nuclear weapon and that it represses its people.

“The regime has absolutely no legitimacy left,” she added.

Bureau Report

First Published: Monday, November 07, 2011, 13:13

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Ismail - Chennai
The gall of this woman. She thinks it is allright for a country thousands of miles away to have influence in Iraq, while influence of neighboring Iran is not acceptable.

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alanmirs - Georgia
She must be day dreaming

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virtual.i.here - india
On the nuclear weapons issue, much is being made of IAEA having discovered that Iran is performing computer simulation of a nuclear weapon and conducting “explosions” in Parchin, near Tehran. What the media reports do not tell us is that these explosions are of conventional explosives that are used in the nuclear weapons trigger. Nor are these reports new. In any case when has anybody doubted that Iran wants to acquire nuclear weapons capability? The critical question is has it crossed the Rubicon and started building actual nuclear weapons? This is what NPT bars, not paper designs, not computer simulations, nor dreaming about nuclear weapons in your sleep. There is no evidence that it has yet one so. After Gaddafi’s brutal death, what is the lesson that the world will draw, is it that one should give up nuclear weapons as Gaddafi did and reap the ‘benefits’ of disarmament? Does anybody doubt that Iranian leadership will draw the conclusion that having nuclear weapons can be a possible deterrent to the US, giving it up achieves nothing. Yes, nuclear weapons are completely immoral and cannot be justified on any count. But the US with its nuclear arsenal and Israel with its undeclared stock-pile of 200 weapons are hardly the countries to talk about the morality of nuclear disarmament.