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...TIME The Iranian ambassador in Iraq says that Iran plans to adopt a more active role in Iraq. Should that worry...
RICE If they were actually engaged in reconstruction in a useful way for Iraqis, that would be fine. But, of course, we don't believe that's what the Iranians recently detained by the U.S. were doing ... This is all about making sure that Iranian networks that are building or assisting people in building these highly explosive IEDs can't do it. Nobody challenges that [Iran] can be a part of reconstruction. In fact, it's one reason they're included in the international compact. That would be fine. But that's not what these agents were doing...
RICE The President absolutely believes this can be done through diplomacy. But it requires a couple of things. It requires the international community to remain united and strong. It requires tools like the [U.N. Security Council] resolution. It requires [financial tools], so that you have leverage to bring the Iranians to the table. The point here is to get the Iranians to change their behavior, to get them to change their strategy, to get them to negotiate in good faith on their nuclear program. I've heard people say, "Well, you're escalating." Well, this is responding, really...
...Americans there. She persuaded Bush to back European-led negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and even offer to talk directly to Tehran if it stopped enriching uranium. But she also supports the military's recent moves to beef up a presence in the Persian Gulf and target Iranian interests in Iraq. Although both Bush and Rice deny they have any hostile intent, there is anxiety in some foreign-policy circles that even as it struggles to avoid losing one war in Iraq, the Administration may provoke another one across the border in Iran...
...IRGC is capable of doing serious damage to our logistics lines. I called up an American contractor in Baghdad who runs convoys from Kuwait every day and asked him just how much damage. "Let me put it this way," he said. "In Basra today the currency is the Iranian toman, not the Iraqi dinar." He said his convoys now are forced to pay a 40% surcharge to Shi'a militias and Iraqi police in the south, many of whom are affiliated with IRGC...