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ロイター通信の記事大要は次のとおり。
ホワイトハウスの元テロ対策主任リチャード・クラーク氏は、16日（日）付のニューヨーク・タイムズ紙で、米国のイランとの軍事衝突が起こればイラク戦争以上の損害が出るだろうと、述べた。
元国務相高官で国家安全保障会議メンバーでもあったスティーブン・サイモン氏と連名で、クラーク氏は、イラクへの核施設への攻撃をもくろんでいるとの報道があるが、「そのような挙に出れば事態は多方面に広がるだけだ」との懸念を表明した。
次いで両氏は、イランは「同国の持つテロリストのネットワークを使って米国内を含め世界中の米国施設を標的にする可能性がある」と警告した。
さらに両氏はヒズボラ（レバノン民兵組織）に言及して「イランは国際テロ組織アルカイダよりはるかに優れた指揮系統を持っている」とも述べた。
以下にロイター通信の英文元記事を転載する。
Former officials warn against U.S. attack on Iran
Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:41 AM BST
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-16T014135Z_01_N15206081_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAN-USA-ARTICLE.xml&src=rss
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. conflict with Iran could be even more damaging to America's interests than the war with Iraq, former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke wrote in Sunday's New York Times.
In an op-ed article co-authored with Steven Simon, a former U.S. State Department official who also worked for the National Security Council, Clarke wrote reports that the Bush administration is contemplating bombing nuclear sites in Iran raised concerns that "would simply begin a multi-move, escalatory process."
Iran's likely response would be to "use its terrorist network to strike American targets around the world, including inside the United States," Clarke and Simon warned.
"Iran has forces as its command far superior to anything Al Qaeda was ever able to field," they said, citing Iran's links with the militant group Hezbollah.
Iran could also make things much worse in Iraq, they wrote, adding "there is every reason to believe that Iran has such a retaliatory shock wave planned and ready."
President George W. Bush might then sanction more bombing, Clarke and Simon said, hoping Iranians would overthrow the Tehran government. But "more likely, the American war against Iran would guarantee the regime decades more of control."
The authors concluded by warning that "the parallels to the run-up to the war with Iraq are all too striking: remember that in May 2002 U.S. President George W. Bush declared that there was 'No war plan on my desk' despite having actually spent months working on detailed plans for the Iraq invasion."
Congress "must not permit the administration to launch another war whose outcome cannot be known, or worse, known all too well," they said.
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