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| 'Nobody planning' attack on Iran | 'Nobody planning' attack on Iran |
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| Prime Minister Tony Blair says people are "increasingly alarmed" by Iran's strategy but said military action was not being planned against it. | |
| He said no option was "off the table" but "nobody is talking about or planning military intervention". | |
| Iran's nuclear programme and strategy "to create the maximum trouble for us" in the region was a "miscalculation", he told a committee of senior MPs. | |
| Mr Blair also said Tehran was trying to prevent reconciliation in Iraq. | |
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| He told MPs: "Their strategy is to create the maximum trouble for us and for the region and I think that is a miscalculation because in the end they are going to find that they assemble a very large coalition against them. | |
| "Nobody's talking about military intervention in respect of Iran but people are increasingly alarmed and concerned at the strategy that they appear to be pursing." | |
| He added that he was sure numerous "doors would open", if they showed some sign that they were prepared to change that strategy. | |
| He said that the Iranian people were seeing a "squeeze" on their living standards as a result of the current situation. | |
| Iran itself says its efforts to enrich uranium are an expression of its right to develop nuclear power under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of which it is a member. | |
| Under the treaty, non-nuclear weapons states area are allowed to acquire nuclear technology for civil purposes but commit themselves not to build a bomb. |