AFP Service
US Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday acknowledged that a blockbuster US intelligence finding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons drive in 2003 may hamper diplomatic efforts to confront Tehran.
“Perhaps, but it wasn’t easy to begin with,” Cheney, one of the staunchest US hawks in the standoff over the Islamic republic’s atomic program, told the US politics online magazine Politico.com in an interview.
“We don’t get to say we only pursue those policies that are easy,” he said in response to a question about the impact the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) would have on a US push for new sanctions on Iran.