Beckett cautious on Iran options

England's NEWEST Foreign minister is a little more circuspect in her declarations, I guess she does not want to piss off Bush. Apparently, she wants to keep the job for this week at least.

Matthew Tempest and agencies
Tuesday May 9, 2006


Margaret Beckett, the new foreign secretary, has stopped short of calling an attack on Iran "inconceivable" in her first public statement on the developing crisis over the state's nuclear ambitions.
Ms Beckett, in New York for talks with the US, France, Germany, Russia and China, said merely that military action was "not discussed, it's not an issue".

That contrasts with Mr Straw's repeated pronouncements that an attack was "inconceivable" and that a nuclear strike against the country rumoured to be an option being considered in Washington was "completely nuts".