| Iran Will Not
Be Allowed to Develop Nuclear Weapons Says Cheney |
| VP's Remarks made to the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, DC |
| From the RD
News Desk |
| Vice
President Dick Cheney says Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear
weapons and is warning that the United States is keeping all options on
the table to deal with what he called the irresponsible conduct of the
Iranian regime. Vice President Cheney says the Iranian government
is continuing to defy the world with its nuclear ambitions and will not
be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. |
| "Of course this
matter may soon go before the U.N. Security Council," said Dick
Cheney. "The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its
present course the international community is prepared to impose
meaningful consequences. For our part, the United States is keeping all
options on the table in addressing the irresponsible conduct of the
regime. And we join other nations in sending that regime a clear
message. We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon." |
| Cheney's remarks came
during a speech in Washington to the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group. |
| He spoke as the board
of the International Atomic Energy Agency met in Vienna to discuss
Iran's nuclear program and whether to seek sanctions from the U.N.
Security Council. |
| The United States and
other nations say Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, while Iran
says it has a right to nuclear technology and that its program is for
peaceful, civilian purposes. |
| Vice President Cheney
says the United States supports the democratic aspirations of the people
of Iran, but he denounced the current government in Tehran. |
| "Iranians have
endured a generation of repression at the hands of a fanatical
regime," he said. "That regime is one of the world's primary
state sponsors of terror. The current president has spoken openly of
wiping Israel off the map and of a world without America. He has made
despicable statements doubting the crimes of the Nazis, aligning himself
with the rest of the fantasy world of holocaust deniers." |
| Report Source: |
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060307-1.html
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