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Iran number one challenge to US: Rice
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-03-10 09:10
Iran is the biggest challenge facing the United States, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said in urging Congress to adopt a package aimed at promoting
democracy in the Islamic republic.
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| Iran is the biggest challenge facing the United States, Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, seen here at the State Department in Washington
DC 08 March 2006, said in urging Congress to adopt a package aimed at
promoting democracy in the Islamic
republic.[AFP] |
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran, whose
policies are directed at developing a Middle East that would be 180 degrees
different than the Middle East we would like to see develop," Rice told the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
"This is a country that is determined, it seems, to develop a nuclear weapon
in defiance of the international community which is determined that they should
not get one."
Rice accused Tehran of being "the central banker for terrorism" and of
backing terrorist activites in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon.
Her comments came as Iran's hardline regime vowed not to abandon the
country's nuclear program despite the possibility of sanctions by the UN
Security Council.
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