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Cheney Amps Up Rhetoric Against Iran

Threatens 'serious consequences' over nuke program

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 21, 2007 7:56 PM CDT

(Newser) – Cheney threatened "serious consequences" today if Iran doesn't drop its nuclear program, Reuters reports. "Our country and the entire international community cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions," he told the audience at a think-tank forum. One... Read full story »

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