ハーバード大学のスティーブン・ウォルト教授のブログを読んでいたら、イギリスのブレア元首相の発言が書かれていました。（ブレア氏は現在西側の中東外交を手助けする仕事をしているはずです。どのような権限が彼にあるのかは私にはわかりませんが。）
Case in point: in an interview with Charlie Rose on Sept. 7, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came close to endorsing the use of force against Iran, on the grounds that it would be too dangerous if Iran were some day to acquire a nuclear weapons capability. He explicitly rejected the idea that deterrence could work against a nuclear Iran in the same way that it worked against the Soviet Union, saying that "this regime is qualitatively different in their makeup.
ブレア元首相はイランに対してイラクと同じような予防戦争（preventive war）をやっても良いというような発言をしたそうです。なぜならイランが核を持てばソビエトの比ではないのだそうです。
Case in point: in an interview with Charlie Rose on Sept. 7, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came close to endorsing the use of force against Iran, on the grounds that it would be too dangerous if Iran were some day to acquire a nuclear weapons capability. He explicitly rejected the idea that deterrence could work against a nuclear Iran in the same way that it worked against the Soviet Union, saying that "this regime is qualitatively different in their makeup.
ブレア元首相はイランに対してイラクと同じような予防戦争（preventive war）をやっても良いというような発言をしたそうです。なぜならイランが核を持てばソビエトの比ではないのだそうです。
