Bush calls IAEA Iran demand ‘positive first step”

Reuters: President George W. Bush said on Thursday the decision of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to call on Iran to halt sensitive atomic work was “a positive first step.” “The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) today issued a report that expressed serious concerns about Iranian decisions and that’s a positive first step,” Bush told reporters at his Texas ranch. Reuters

CRAWFORD, Texas – President George W. Bush said on Thursday the decision of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to call on Iran to halt sensitive atomic work was “a positive first step.”

“The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) today issued a report that expressed serious concerns about Iranian decisions and that’s a positive first step,” Bush told reporters at his Texas ranch.

He said the U.S. strategy was to work with the EU-3, “so that the Iranians hear a common voice speaking to them about their nuclear weapons ambitions, and I appreciate the IAEA’s positive first step.”

“The world is coalescing around the notion that the Iranians should not have the means and the wherewithal to be able to develop a nuclear weapon,” Bush said.