Washington: Iran is the biggest threat to the United States in the Middle East, exceeding al Qaeda, which is going down but not out, a senior US military official said on Friday.
“The biggest threat to the United States and to our interests and to our friends, I might add, has come into focus and it’s Iran,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official said that he did not believe Iran wanted to provoke a conflict, however, and added he did not know if the Islamic state had decided to build a nuclear weapon.
A report is expected to be released next week in which International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations nuclear watchdog will unveil evidence of Iranian nuclear research which makes little sense if not weapons related.
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