During today’s press conference, President Bush warned of the risk of ‘World War III’ if Iran acquires “the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

If Iran had a nuclear weapon, it’d be a dangerous threat to world peace. So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously.

But as Iran’s top political reformers have pointed out, a war with Iran would strengthen hard liners within Iran and destabilize the region. According to Mohsen Mirdamadi, one of Iran’s top reform politicians, “Western powers have to stop any talk of war if they want democracy to succeed in Iran. The threat of an attack helps Ahmadinejad’s political agenda.”

Any U.S. military action against Iran will only boost radicals within Iran … Military action will set back democracy in Iran for a decade or two.

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