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British Foreign Secretary Warns Iran
Britain’s new foreign secretary David Miliband has warned Iran that his government will maintain a tough stance on any attempts by Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons. In his first interview since becoming foreign secretary at the end of June, Miliband told the Financial Times that the west was making a "very clear offer" that would allow Iran to develop nuclear power. But in a sign that the new government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not moderate Britain's policy on Iran, Miliband said the Tehran regime "doesn't have the right to undermine the stability of its neighbors" and "doesn't have the right to set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East." He also said Britain will press ahead with a third United Nations resolution that stiffened sanctions against Iran, if necessary.
Story Continues Below On the subject of possible military action against Iran, Miliband said simply: "I think that the whole of the international community wants a non-military, diplomatic solution to this problem. I don't think it does any good to speculate any wider than that." But he insisted that the British government would "not retreat from the world" now that Tony Blair has departed from his prime minister post, the Times reported, and he made it clear that the new British government would be "a robust defender of our national interest."
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