A former top UN and US arms inspector on Iraq has said it may be too late to stop a nuclear-weapons determined Iran, noting that there is no consensus on taking military action against Tehran.
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President George Bush's administration is in denial over the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the US-led invasion in 2003, former chief US arms inspector David Kay has said.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who cited Saddam Hussein's alleged chemical and biological arms as justification for war, admits Iraq may not have possessed such weapons when US-led forces invaded.
President George Bush says he will set up an inquiry into intelligence mistakes over Iraq's alleged weapons programme, putting pressure on Washington's closest allies to follow suit.