Breaking News - Rice Grilled; Shouting Match With Bolton

U.N Questions Rice On Iran Intentions

U.S. Urges ‘Strong Steps”; Council Presses Secretary If Adding To “Thousands Of Errors” Or Starting New Tab

Shortly after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked the United Nations Security Council today, to take "strong steps" against Iran, for their expansion of their nuclear technology, Rice was grilled in a private session over U.S. intentions.

“We got the short end of the stick when it came to Iraq,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as he emerged from the session. “We want to get the full story, the true story in advance this time.”

Sources say Rice was “surprised” by the Council asking for the private session, and hopes that the delay in taking action against Iran, won’t “come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”

Rice was pressed on how far the White House has gone with planning for war with Iran and, if this is an extension of their Iraq operations, or a stand-alone, separate effort.

President Bush said yesterday, that reports of Iran War plans were "just wild speculation".

Neither the White House, nor the United Nations would confirm reports of an altercation between Secretary Rice and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton.

Witness report of a shouting match between the two, before Rice addressed the Security Council, with Bolton “red-faced and screaming” that Rice “walk in there, get the sanctions, get the war approval”.

Then U.N. was also seeking, for possible future policies, if the pending Iran actions will be added to the “thousands of tactical errors” Rice has already admitted the United States committed in Iraq, or if they are “starting a new tab.”

“We hope, “said French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, “that the United States now knows the difference between real, functioning nuclear facilities, and broken down trailers strewn about the desert.”

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled by the U.N. today, if the pending Iran actions will be added to the “thousands of tactical errors” Rice has already admitted the United States committed in Iraq, or if they are “starting a new tab.”