WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) has said that talk of a US military strike on Iran's nuclear programs was "just not the truth" but expressed growing impatience with Tehran's response to Europe-led overtures.
"The Iranians, I read the other day where they said, 'we can't go forward unless this, that or the other -- unless the United States is involved,'" Bush told reporters in Washington ahead of his fence-mending trip to Europe next week.
"The Iranians don't need any excuses," the US president said Friday. "They just need to do what the free world has asked them to do. And it's pretty clear: Give up your weapons program."
Bush expressed strong support for diplomacy by Britain, France and Germany to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear enrichment program, but resisted calls for a bigger US role in those talks with Tehran.
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