Confronting Iran: anyone with sense perceives a threat: what are our options?(Foreign Policy)(Column)

National Review | February 28, 2005| | Copyright

'YOU look around the world at potential trouble spots, Iran is right at the top of the list," Vice President Cheney said in a recent radio interview, accusing Iran of supporting terror and pursuing a "fairly robust new nuclear program." Cheney isn't the only top administration official to signal growing American intolerance of Iranian activities: Secretary of State Rice did so during her confirmation hearings, and President Bush had harsh words for Iran in his State of the Union address. These comments are encouraging in light of the past several years, when the Bush ...

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