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Date: June 28, 2007 11:16:21 AM PDT
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Subject: GOP Candidate for President Wants War with Iran
West urged to blockade Iran
David Blair, London
June 21, 2007
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/west-urged-to-blockade-iran/
2007/06/20/1182019197725.html
THE US actor and former senator widely seen as the Republicans'
best hope for keeping the White House has called for a blockade of
Iran.
Screen veteran Fred Thompson, whose announcement as the 11th
contender for the Republican nomination is expected within days,
also warned that jihadists were trying to bring the West to its knees.
During a visit to London, he delivered a hawkish lecture on foreign
policy, singling out Iran's nuclear ambitions as a key threat to
the West.
"When the President of Iran shares his nightmare visions before
cheering crowds, those are not just a fanatic's version of an empty
applause line. The only safe assumption is that he means it," he said.
The former senator suggested sanctions, diplomatic pressure and a
blockade could be used to compel Iran to stop enriching uranium.
"A blockade would be a possibility if we could get the
international co-operation, if in fact we're all reading off the
same page and saw the nature of the threat."
Blockading Iran would technically be an act of war. It would
involve using the US Navy's Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain — and the
warships of any allied nation — to prevent shipping from reaching
the Islamic republic's ports in the Gulf.
While choking the flow of imports into Iran, a blockade would also
have worldwide repercussions by driving up the price of oil.
During his lecture Mr Thompson painted a bleak picture of a world
torn by terrorism.
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