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Obama Warns Bush Administration on Iran

January 30, 2007 12:08 PM

ABC News' Kirit Radia Reports: This morning at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., questioned Deputy Secretary of State nominee John Negroponte about Iran and at the same time outlined his own policy ideas.

In his remarks, Obama said that the United States needs "transparency" to avoid repeating past policy mistakes in the Middle East.  If U.S. troops are attacked by Iran, the U.S. can take, "appropriate action," to protects its forces Obama said.

In regards towards Iran's nuclear program, Obama called for exhausting all diplomatic options but declared that U.S. must "keep all options on the table" and try to stop Iran from pursuing its nuclear ambitions, lest anyone listening think the presidential hopeful would be afraid to use America's military might should he become commander-in-chief.

Obama also warned the aministration that he and his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will keep a close eye on U.S. action against Iran, saying that "we do not want to see precipitous actions that have not been thought through, have not been discussed, have not been authorized."

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