Blair: Iran's president 'trying to acquire nuclear weapon'

From Blair speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles:

"Iran's President has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". And he's trying to acquire a nuclear weapon." Full text

Whilst not wanting to get into the did he or didn't he debate regarding President Ahmadinejad's alleged 'wipe Israel off the map' statement [Google Juan Cole on this] - what is clear and without doubt is that Blair has absolutely no proof to substantiate his claim that Iran's President is trying to acquire a nuclear weapon. Blair may think that he is, John Bolton may think that he is, all sorts of neocon war mongers may think that he is - I may think that he is - but these claims from Blair are on the same level as the claims he made that Iraq had a store of WMD's. They are false - and will remain false just so long as no proof is forthcoming.