"There are ways to live with a nuclear Iran," Abizaid said in remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank. "Let's face it, we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with (other) nuclear powers as well."
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It is not the case of becoming a nuclear power, it is the case of morality. The Iranian Nowrooz Spirit does not allow a threatening posture.