Guardian: Everything is on table, Iran warned (Bolton)

[Eugene]

Everything is on table, Iran warned

· US envoy says military action is an option
· UN watchdog to forward report on nuclear activity

Julian Borger in Washington
Monday March 6, 2006
The Guardian

The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has told British MPs that military action
could bring Iran's nuclear programme to a halt if all diplomatic efforts fail. The warning came ahead
of a meeting today of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which will forward a report on Iran's nuclear activities to the UN security council.

The council will have to decide whether to impose sanctions, an issue that could split the
international community as policy towards Iraq did before the invasion.

Yesterday the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, said: "Nobody has said that we have to rush
immediately to sanctions of some kind."

However the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, visiting Washington last week, encountered
sharply different views within the Bush administration. The most hawkish came from Mr Bolton.
According to Eric Illsley, a Labour committee member, the envoy told the MPs: "They must know
everything is on the table and they must understand what that means. We can hit different points
along the line. You only have to take out one part of their nuclear operation to take the whole
thing down."

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1724473,00.html

... and still more from Yosemite Sam Bolton in LBN: Bolton warns Iran of "painful consequences"

[marmar]

1. Psychotic bastard...

I wish someone would drag him out the U.N. by his silly moustache.

[madrchsod]

2. does anyone have a clue to who is in charge?

it`s clear that bush has no control over what is being said..one day it is this the next day that,everyone has an opinion on what needs to be done,and bush spouts gibberish about mangoes. meanwhile the rest of the world goes about it`s business hoping that if push comes to shove someone in the whitehouse will stop bush from upsetting the balance of world trade.

[OneBlueSky]

3. please excuse me if these are really stupid questions . . . but . . .

just what in the hell gives the US, via BushCo, the right to dictate to ANY country whether or not they can build nuclear power plants, do research on nuclear energy, or even look into nuclear weapons? . . .

did the world get together and appoint them "guardians of the commons" and I missed it? . . .

isn't what they're threatening to do thoroughly illegal under international law? . . .

again, my apologies if there are self-evident answers to these questions that I'm just missing . . . (if so, I'll look into adjusting the meds) . . .