Don’t Bomb Iran

when asked in the House of Commons in Jan 2005 whether he would
rule out British involvement in a US strike on Iran, bush refused to
answer the question, saying he knew of no such plans.

See Hansard for 26th January 2005

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-
office.co.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050126/debtext/50126-
03.htm#column_294 .

Mr. Michael Meacher (Oldham, West and Royton) (Lab): In view of reports circulating around President Bush’s second inauguration that the Bush Administration are now contemplating an attack on Iran=97allegedly, US special forces are already in place in that country=97will my right hon. Friend give an unequivocal and categoric assurance to the House that he will in no way involve British forces in any such attack if it were to take place? Will he also give an assurance that he will seek publicly as well as privately strongly to dissuade the Americans from undertaking any such attack, including the use of Israeli planes to bomb Iranian nuclear installations?

The Prime Minister: I know of no such contemplation by the United States of America. I refer my right hon. Friend to what the Vice-President of America said the other day, when he made it quite clear there was no such contemplation by America. What he went on to say,however, and I fully agree with this, is that there is indeed a serious issue as to Iran, nuclear weapons and its obedience to the International Atomic Energy Authority. What we are doing in Europe, in concert with America and others, is trying to ensure that Iran complies with its international obligations. I hope that my right hon. Friend accepts, as I do, that we must do everything we possibly can to send the right signal to Iran that it does indeed have to comply with those obligations.