Cheney says Iran is priority hotspot

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Times
From Roland Watson in Washington

DICK CHENEY placed Iran at the top of Washington’s list of world troublespots and said that he feared that Israel may strike Tehran in order to eliminate its nuclear threat.

“We don’t want a war in the Middle East if we can avoid it,” said Mr Cheney, who was yesterday sworn in for a second term as President Bush’s Vice-President.

But on the same day that Mr Bush warned tyrants around the world that he would devote the next four years to destroying their regimes with an “untamed fire of freedom”, Mr Cheney lost no time to get to the point.

“You look around the world at potential troublespots, Iran is right at the top of the list,” the Vice-President said in a television interview.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1450455,00.html

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