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Titolo: Dissidio Blair-Straw sull'azione americana in Iran (The Independent)

 Interessante che Straw prenda le distanze da Blair sull'Iran. Forse 
stavolta Tony ha veramente perso la bacchetta magica.
Notare che Straw ha anche l'accordo dei ministri della UE.
Am.
Blair and Straw at odds over US action in Iran
 By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith
 Published: 20 April 2006
 Jack Straw has warned Cabinet colleagues that it would be illegal for 
Britain to support the United States in military action against Iran. 
But Tony Blair has backed President George Bush by warning that ruling 
out military action would send out a "message of weakness" to Iran.
 Differences opened up yesterday between Mr Blair and the Foreign 
Secretary over growing alarm in the US at the refusal of Mr Bush to 
rule out military action. Mr Straw said on BBC Radio 4 that it was 
"inconceivable" that Britain would support a military strike against 
Tehran. Four hours later, Mr Blair refused to go that far when 
challenged to do so at Prime Minister's questions by the former 
minister, Michael Meacher.
 Mr Blair accused Iran of fostering international terrorism, and said 
young people were signing up to be suicide bombers directed at US and 
UK targets. " I do not think this is the time to send a message of 
weakness," he said.
 Mr Straw has told ministerial colleagues he does not believe that the 
Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, would approve the legality of British 
action, because Iran does not pose a direct threat to Britain. Mr Straw 
also said it would be "nuts" to consider a nuclear strike.
 The possibility of action against Iran threatens to resurrect the row 
over the basis on which Britain went to war in Iraq. The Attorney 
General became embroiled in the legal advice he gave to the Prime 
Minister over the war.
 Clare Short, the former cabinet minister, said the Cabinet had never 
been shown the full legal advice and there were claims that Lord 
Goldsmith may have changed his view under pressure from Mr Blair.
 Some Labour MPs say Mr Straw was wrong to rule out military action, 
and accuse him of bowing to pressure from the strong Muslim population 
in his Blackburn constituency.
 But most Labour MPs support Mr Straw's strategy and would revolt if Mr 
Blair showed any sign of lending support to a US strike against Iran. 
Mr Straw was given tacit support at a meeting of European foreign 
ministers in Luxembourg last week.
 France understands Mr Blair's argument that keeping the military 
option on the table would keep up the pressure on Iran. But it is to 
urge London to press the Bush administration to soften its approach so 
it no longer treats Iran as a "rogue state" but engages in a wider 
dialogue with Tehran on terrorism, the Middle East peace process and 
oil.
 Yesterday there was a rare, informal meeting of US and Iranian embassy 
diplomats at the Commons organised by the Foreign Policy Centre 
think-tank to launch its pamphlet Understanding Iran.
 Diplomatic contacts between Iran and the US have been infrequent since 
students occupied the US embassy in Tehran 26 years ago. Pam Telford, 
who handles proliferation issues for the US embassy, denied Washington 
had aggravated the problem by having no clear policy towards Iran, or 
by having double standards about which Asian states are allowed to have 
nuclear weapons.
 The Iranian charge d'affaires, Hamid Reza Arefi, denied Iran intended 
to develop nuclear weapons.
 

 stavolta Tony ha veramente perso la bacchetta magica.
"stavolta" ? perche' sulla criminale e illegale invasione dell'Iraq
l'aveva?
 
 
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 l'aveva?
All'epoca della decisione di invadere aveva la  maggioranza, anche se in 
seguito parecchi laburisti si sono dimessi.
Oggi non e' detto che ce l'abbia,anche perche' e' gia' andato in 
minoranza due o tre volte su delle  leggi controverse.
Am.
PS lascia perdere gli epiteti da 3a internazionale. Fa tanto retro'...