John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, "compared the threat from Iran’s nuclear programs to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States."“Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that’s the threat. I think that is the threat,” Bolton told ABC News’ Nightline Wednesday. “I think it’s just facing reality. It’s not a happy reality, but it’s reality and if you don’t deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.”
Bolton’s statements came after the House International Relations Committee voted 37-3 Wednesday to approve legislation tightening sanctions against Iran.
Among other provisions, the legislation "would end U.S. economic aid to any country that helped Iran by investing in its energy sector or permitted a private entity to carry out such investment.
The administration said it could not support the legislation, contending that it would limit the flexibility needed to pursue a diplomatic solution to the stalemate over Iran’s nuclear program.
Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., the committee’s ranking Democrat, said persuasion won’t work with Iran. “We can only hope to inflict such severe economic pain on Tehran that it would starve the leadership of the resources they need to fund a costly nuclear program,” he said."
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