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Cheney: 'We Will Not Allow' Iran Nukes
Vice President Threatens 'Serious' Consequences


Vice President Dick Cheney today issued
his sternest warning to date on Iran,
saying the Persian nation will not be allowed
to pursue its nuclear program.

Dismissing Iran's claims
that it is seeking only nuclear energy
and not a weapons program,
Cheney accused Iranian leaders of pursuing a practice
of "delay and deception
in an obvious effort to buy time."

"Our country, and the entire international community,
cannot stand by
as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions,"
Cheney told the Washington Institute
for Near East Studies.
"The Iranian regime needs to know
that if it stays on its present course
the international community is prepared
to impose serious consequences."

The rising rhetoric could signal
that President Bush intends to take action --
possibly military action --
to halt Iran's nuclear program
before the president leaves office on Jan. 20, 2009,
some analysts said.

"That's pretty firm, clear language,"
Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst for the Brookings Institution,
told ABC News of Cheney's wording.
"And it raises more clearly
the specter of military action.
That is much more than
saying this isn't just an option
that we've taken off the table."

Cheney's statement bore a striking resemblance to this warning
before an audience of Republicans on Jan. 31, 2003,
less than two months
before the U.S. invasion of Iraq: "
We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties
to terror and a record of feckless aggression
to dominate the Middle East
and to threaten the United States."

A spokeswoman for the vice president said his statements today
echoed his previous comments on Iran.

On March 7, 2006, for instance,
he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, "
And we join other nations
in sending that regime a clear message:
We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

And on May 11, 2007, he said, "
We'll stand with others to prevent Iran
from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region."

But analysts said
the administration's talk on Iran has taken
on a tone of rising warning and aggressiveness,
particularly on a week
that included an unusually strongly worded admonition
from President Bush earlier this week.

"We got a leader in Iran
who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel,"
Bush told reporters at the White House. "
So I've told people
that if you're interested in avoiding World War III,
it seems like you ought to be interested
in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary
to make a nuclear weapon."

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