Gates: Iran Nuclear Arms Worst Threat to Security

[AFP] Iran's nuclear ambitions are the greatest current threat to global security, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "Iran is the one that concerns me the most because there don't seem to be good options (or a scenario) where one can have any optimism that good options will be found," Gates told the Economic Club of Chicago. The threat rests not only in Iran's apparent determination to seek a nuclear weapon, but in the "inability of the international community to affect their determination to do that."


2009-07-17 06:00:00

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