Blair says will wait for UN report on Iran before judging nuclear claims

[Barrett808]

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday the international community should reserve judgment on whether Iran has a nuclear weapons program until the UN atomic energy watchdog issues a report in March.

Asked if he was concerned about accusations that Iran may have gone back on a commitment made to foreign ministers from Britain, France and Germany in October to come clean on its nuclear program and suspend the enrichment of uranium, Blair said he would wait to judge.

"The good thing about the situation we helped to bring about is that the International Atomic Energy Agency are now committed in Iran and they'll produce a report I think in March and that is a report that can go through all these issues," he said.

"I think probably rather than me comment at this stage, we should wait until they make that report then. They, as the international commission looking at these things, are best placed to do that," he told a news conference after talks with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin.

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[CatWoman]

1. Fool me once.........................

............ain't gonna get fooled again.

[ugarte]

4. Oh, he wasn't fooled

He just decided to play along.

[lastknowngood]

2. Why doesn't he just call his master the shrub to get Blair's

opinion directed to him. The damn poodle.

[54anickel]

3. What, Tony gonna try and sit this one out? So NOW he trusts the

opinion of the UN?