“Iran’s nuclear programme violates its obligation and... the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and risks sparking a nuclear arms race in the Middle East,” said Biden, at the start of a European tour. Wouldn’t it be “ironic,” the Democratic vice-president asked, if the world saw the Iron Curtain fall with the end of the Soviet Union only for a new arms race to emerge “in some of the most unstable parts of the world.”
“That would be an irony that our children, our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren would not forgive us, in my view, to allow to come to pass,” he said.
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