(Scotsman-UK) Gethin Chamberlain - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Tuesday in an interview that Iran was heading down the same path as Iraq before the 2003 invasion and could not be trusted to tell the truth about its nuclear program. He said he believed Iran posed a serious threat to the rest of the world in the same way as Iraq, and he refused to apologize for the action the U.S. took against Saddam Hussein's regime. Powell said it was clear that negotiations with Iran had come to a dead end and efforts now had to concentrate on preventing it taking the same path as Iraq. "Iraq actually had nuclear weapons capability that they were within a couple of years of bringing to weapons status. The UN found that after the war," he said.
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