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01-26-2005, 10:53 AM
The Us it seems is softening up it's stance on Iran, Meanwhile Iran seems to do a bit of posturing.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12059790%255E1702,00.html
Iran will give 'astonishing' response
From correspondents in Tehran
26jan05
IRAN will carry out an "astonishing" retaliation to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the US, a top Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying today.
"We will counter any stupid action by Israel and its master with firmness and in an astonishing way," Brigadier-General Mohammad-Ali Jafari was quoted as saying by the Shargh newspaper.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces said Iran had the capacity to defeat any invader within months.
"We pushed the Baathist enemy from our country within one and a half years," he said, referring to the opening campaigns of the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
"With the experience and skills from that war and in the case of any invasion, the invaders will be defeated in less than one and a half months."
US Backs Iran Diplomacy over Military Action
http://www.iran-daily.com/1383/2200/html/
LONDON, Jan. 25--After talks with US Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said top officials in Washington support the use of diplomacy over military action in dealings with Iran.
"The issue of a military option simply wasn't raised today," Straw told the BBC after his meeting in Washington with Rice, AFP reported.
US Vice President Dick Cheney, who has called Iran's controversial nuclear ambitions one of Washington's main concerns, said that "he backs a diplomatic approach to Iran", Straw recalled.
He said the difficulty was to decide how to work with Iran and how to make sure that its future activities are "entirely for peaceful purposes and (that) there's no intention, no possibility, that it's being used for nuclear weapons purposes".
The British foreign secretary has reportedly produced a hefty dossier to argue London's case for a "negotiated solution" rather than military action to thwart Tehran's suspected ambitions to produce nuclear weapons.
The dossier, reports say, calls a peaceful solution led by Britain, France and Germany "in the best interests of Iran and the international community", while referring to "safeguarding Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear technology".
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12059790%255E1702,00.html
Iran will give 'astonishing' response
From correspondents in Tehran
26jan05
IRAN will carry out an "astonishing" retaliation to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the US, a top Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying today.
"We will counter any stupid action by Israel and its master with firmness and in an astonishing way," Brigadier-General Mohammad-Ali Jafari was quoted as saying by the Shargh newspaper.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces said Iran had the capacity to defeat any invader within months.
"We pushed the Baathist enemy from our country within one and a half years," he said, referring to the opening campaigns of the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
"With the experience and skills from that war and in the case of any invasion, the invaders will be defeated in less than one and a half months."
US Backs Iran Diplomacy over Military Action
http://www.iran-daily.com/1383/2200/html/
LONDON, Jan. 25--After talks with US Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said top officials in Washington support the use of diplomacy over military action in dealings with Iran.
"The issue of a military option simply wasn't raised today," Straw told the BBC after his meeting in Washington with Rice, AFP reported.
US Vice President Dick Cheney, who has called Iran's controversial nuclear ambitions one of Washington's main concerns, said that "he backs a diplomatic approach to Iran", Straw recalled.
He said the difficulty was to decide how to work with Iran and how to make sure that its future activities are "entirely for peaceful purposes and (that) there's no intention, no possibility, that it's being used for nuclear weapons purposes".
The British foreign secretary has reportedly produced a hefty dossier to argue London's case for a "negotiated solution" rather than military action to thwart Tehran's suspected ambitions to produce nuclear weapons.
The dossier, reports say, calls a peaceful solution led by Britain, France and Germany "in the best interests of Iran and the international community", while referring to "safeguarding Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear technology".