Special report:
Iran Nuclear
Crisis
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The United States
might take military action to stop Iran's alleged involvement in Iraq War by
training and equipping extremists who are killing U.S. troops, a U.S. senator
said Sunday.
"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive
military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in
Iraq," Sen. Joseph Lieberman said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"And to me, that would include a
strike into -- over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they
have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to
kill our soldiers," he said.
The United States has long branded Iran as one of the
"state sponsors of terrorism," and accuses Tehran of fueling the violence in
Iraq, a charge Tehran dismisses. Iran blames the U.S. occupying forces for the
bloodshed in Iraq.