Condoleeza Rice invokes "Self-Defense"

"The right to self-defense does not necessarily require a UN Security Council resolution," she says, noting that the United States went to war in the Balkans without one.

"It is important to note that the president doesn't take any options off the table," Rice adds. "We are prepared to use measures at our disposal- political, economic or others to persuade Iran."

5/1/2001: Leaving a wave of controversy in its wake, one of the most visible reminders of the Bush administration's ties to big oil - the 129,000-ton Chevron tanker Condoleezza Rice - has quietly been renamed, Chevron officials acknowledged yesterday.