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Condoleezza Rice: Iran Playing Games
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice complained on Sunday that Iran was "playing games" in a bid to avoid having the United Nations Security Council impose sanctions over its nuclear weapons program. "We have heard from Iran every time they get close to a Security Council decision; there's some effort to say, oh no, we really were, in fact, interested in that proposal that we rejected just a few weeks ago, or no, now the IAEA can come," Rice told ABC's "This Week." "They've had plenty of time to cooperate," the top diplomat said. "I think they're playing games." Rice added, however, that if she were wrong, Tehran could prove it by simply bringing their uranium enrichment efforts to a halt.
Story Continues Below "They should come clean, they should stop the enrichment, suspend the enrichment," she told "This Week." "The path for Iran is very clear and the path by which they could get civil nuclear energy is also very clear." On Iraq, Rice said that even if she had known that Saddam Hussein didn't have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, she would have still supported toppling his regime. "It was absolutely the right decision to finally deal with this threat in the midst of the world's most volatile region," she told CNN's "Late Edition." "I think that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was the right thing for a whole variety of reasons." She cited Saddam's 1980's use of WMDs on his own people, his material support for terrorists in the region and his manipulation of U.N. sanctions.
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