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Bolton: Attack Iran, 'remove' its leader Jerusalem
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Bolton said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was "pushing
out" and "is not receiving adequate push-back" from the
West. "Because life is about choices, I think we have to consider the use of military force. I think we have to look at a limited strike against their nuclear facilities." He added that any strike should be followed by an attempt to remove the "source of the problem", Ahmadinejad. "If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change ... The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back," he said.
Bolton said that the fact that only partial intelligence about Iran's nuclear activity existed should not be used as an excuse not to act. "Intelligence can be wrong in more than one direction... Responding
after they (nuclear devices) are used is unacceptable." The former envoy criticized Britain's "softly softly" approach to Iran's imprisonment of 15 British sailors in April. They were released after Ahmadinejad announced he was making a "gift" to the British people. "They [Iran] got no response from the UK or the US. If you were the Iranian leader, what conclusion do you draw?"
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Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Tory
delegates in Britain Sunday that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate
with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike
on suspected nuclear facilities in the country. 
