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No plans to attack Iran - Blair
06/02/2007 21:29 - (SA)
London - No-one is planning an attack on Iran but Tehran's strategy is causing increasing alarm, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday.
Blair accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons capability
in defiance of the United Nations and of deliberately fostering
sectarianism and conflict in its region.
But he also held out an olive branch to Iran by saying "a
whole series of doors" would open for Tehran if it changed its
strategy.
"Nobody is talking about military intervention in respect of
Iran, but people are increasingly alarmed and concerned at the
strategy they appear to be pursuing," Blair told a parliamentary
committee.
"Nobody is talking or planning military intervention and
that's not what the international community wants, it's not what
we want. But it's important Iran understands that at the moment
it is doing two groups of things that are really unsettling the
international community," he said.
Blair, however, quoted US President George W Bush's
much-used phrase that "you can't take any option off the table".
Iran says its nuclear enrichment programme is aimed solely
at electricity generation. Washington also accuses Tehran of
funding and training militants fighting US forces in Iraq.
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