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| DATE | 2005-08-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] I was just in the neighborhood and thought I'd say hello...
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Bush not ruling out force on nuclear issue
By Reuters | August 14, 2005
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush said in an interview broadcast
yesterday that he would consider using force as a last resort to press
Iran to give up its nuclear program and that ''all options are on the
table."
But Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany, one of the most prominent
European opponents of the US-led war on Iraq, said at an election rally
that the threat of force is not acceptable.
In what seemed to be a reference to Bush's remarks, Schroeder told the
crowd in his home city of Hanover: ''Let's take the military option off
the table. We have seen it doesn't work."
Iran angered the European Union and the United States by resuming
uranium conversion at the Isfahan plant last Monday after rejecting an
EU offer of political and economic incentives in return for giving up
its nuclear program.
Tehran says it aims only to produce electricity and denies Western
accusations it is seeking a nuclear bomb.
Bush was asked whether the use of force is a possible option.
''As I say, all options are on the table. The use of force is the last
option for any president and you know, we've used force in the recent
past to secure our country," he told state-owned Israel Channel One
television.
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