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Iran out of the "axis"? (Insider Report).

The New American

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According to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, "there's one dramatic difference between Iran" and the other two members of the "axis of evil," Iraq and North Korea, "and that would be democracy." The State Department lists Iran as a major exporter of terrorism, and--thanks to Russian help--it is much closer to having nuclear weapons than Iraq. Nonetheless, according to Armitage, the Bush administration has quietly pursued diplomatic contacts with supposedly democratic Teheran, and "does not plan to target the Islamic republic after the likely war in Iraq," reported the February 15th Sydney Morning Herald.

On the same day that the Herald reported the Bush administration's new chumminess with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary regime, ...

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