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The U.S. military could have plans to use Georgian air bases to launch air strikes against Iran, according to Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. He pointed out that Georgia would be the perfect base for a potential U.S. operation in Iran.

Speaking in Brussels, Dmitry Rogozin said:

"What NATO is doing now in Georgia is restoring its ability to monitor its airspace, in other words restoring the whole locator system and an anti-missile defence system which were destroyed by Russian artillery. Now these systems are being restored as soon as possible. We have unconfirmed information that American ships under cover of himanitarian aid have delivered all the equipment necessary for the restoration of these systems."

Nevertheless, David Wurmser, a former key national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, has said that President Bush is highly unlikely to take any military action against Iran before he leaves office.

"Two things have to be in place for there to be an attack - and that time has run out, and that diplomacy has run out,” Wursner said in Brussels after a day-long meeting on nuclear non-proliferation. “The feeling to a large extent now is that diplomacy is working, that there is a trend in the regime toward moderation, that pressure is building on the regime."