Nobody planning Iran attack: honest Tony Blair
“Nobody’s talking about military intervention in respect of Iran” Tony Blair unbelievably told a parliamentary committee, but insisted that the military option, in a broad coalition, could not be taken off the table. Defending his highly interventionist, pro-American foreign policy, he suggested that maybe the UK in future needed to decide if it should abandon the ’special relationship’ with Washington. Guardian report Feb 6
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February 19th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
[...] US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC reports. An attack could be triggered by events in Iraq that the US blames Iran for. Extensive plans have been hinted at before, but the details and extra ‘trigger’ are new. Last week Tony Blair told parliamentarians that “Nobody’s talking about military intervention in respect of Iran” - maybe he forgot to ask the Pentagon. [...]
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