Update [2004-12-18 17:30:41 by Armando]: Promoted from the diaries by Armando. Could this be the next Debacle? Would it be a Debacle? What can we do about Iran? What happens if a Shia government, with strong ties to Iran, emerges in Iraq? A seriously undercovered story.
On November 17, 2004, Colin Powell said that Iran is possibly developing the means to deliver a nuclear bomb. Since then, Iran has partially suspended its nuclear programs.
Whether or not they are still on Bush's short list of nations to attack, Hosni Mubarak has some pretty strong words on the subject.
Continued below the fold.
I tried to find Mubarak's interview in Der Spiegel online, but the English version didn't have it, and the German version was abridge.
At any rate, here's the Reuters release:
Egypt's Mubarak warns U.S. against attacking Iran
The United States would be making a catastrophic mistake if it attacked Iran to destroy the country's nuclear programme, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday.
"If the U.S. were really to attack Iran it would be a mistake of catastrophic proportions. Then terror and violence on a scale that put what we have seen so far in the shade would spread over the Middle East and soon after to the whole world," Mubarak told the German magazine Der Spiegel.
"I hope it does not come to that," he added.
The article also quotes Mubarak on Iraq:
Asked about the view of some U.S. conservatives that a stable democracy in Iraq would act as a lighthouse for the whole region, Mubarak said: "Probably not much more will come out of that than the light of the Moon."