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Agence France Presse – Negotiations with Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme have failed and the only long-term option is regime change, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said Monday. <\/p>\nAgence France Presse – Negotiations with Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme have failed and the only long-term option is regime change, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said Monday. <\/p>\n
"We have to recognise it: negotiations have failed. Time is not on our side. I am not sure this view is shared in London, Berlin or Paris. But that is a mistake," Bolton told Le Monde newspaper. <\/p>\n
"The only response is to isolate (the Iranians) internationally as well as politically and economically. In the long term, in the I hope not very long term, the only real solution is regime change," he said.
Asked if this was the policy of the US administration, he said: "No. Regime change is not part of their working framework." <\/p>\n
On the issue of Iraq, Bolton — a key supporter of the 2003 invasion — said that he "continued to think that the basic decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein was the right one." <\/p>\n
"Retrospectively we should have transferred authority to the Iraqis more quickly," he said. <\/p>\n
Asked about President George W. Bush’s plans to send in troop reinforcements to stem the violence in Iraq, he said it was the US’s "last effort." <\/p>\n
"If the Iraqis cannot straighten the situation, that’s their fault," Bolton said. <\/p>\n
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