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Jan 22, 2005 - Page 7　News List  Israel urged to `act first'
toward Iran  INAUGURAL FEAT US Vice President Cheney is claiming
Iran has already developed a 'fairly robust' nuclear program and
is urging Israel to act on it   Just hours before being sworn in
for a econd term, Vice President Dick Cheney publicly raised the
possibility on Thursday that Israel "might well decide to act
first" to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.  In an
interview on the MSNBC program Imus in the Morning, a highly
unusual forum for Cheney, he appeared to use the danger of
Israeli military action as one more reason that the Iranians
should reach a diplomatic agreement to disarm, noting dryly that
any such strike would leave "a diplomatic mess afterwards" and
should be avoided.  President Bush, in his inaugural speech on
Thursday, appeared to have Iran, among other countries, in mind
when he said he was committed to "the ultimate goal of ending
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