US threat to 'protect troops' from Tehran

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The Australian

US President George W. Bush yesterday warned Iran that if it refused to stop arming and training Shia militia in Iraq then "America will act to protect our interests and our troops".

During a speech in which he ordered an indefinite halt to US troop withdrawals from Iraq this northern summer, Mr Bush called Iran one of the two greatest threats to the US in this century, together with al-Qa'ida.

His words echoed testimony from General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, to Congress this week in which he described Iranian-backed Shia groups and the "malevolent" influence of Tehran as the biggest long-term threat to a viable Iraq.

"If we succeed in Iraq after all that al-Qa'ida and Iran have invested there, it would be a historic blow to the global terrorist movement and a severe setback for Iran," Mr Bush said.

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1. More excuses for a failed war.