BBC
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has attacked the head of the UN nuclear watchdog for urging caution in the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.
She said diplomacy was best left to diplomats, not a technical body such as the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The criticism came after IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said force should be a last resort in the Iran dispute.
He dismissed talk of military action in Iran as "hype" and urged people not to forget the lessons of war in Iraq.
Ms Rice maintained that "all options" were on the table to resolve the stand-off over Iran's refusal to end its uranium-enrichment work.
The US was committed to a diplomatic resolution but diplomacy had to have "a set of teeth" and incentives to work, she said.
Ms Rice made the comments while travelling to Israel in another attempt to restart Middle East peace talks...........
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