By ANNE GEARAN AP Diplomatic Writer PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - The Iran looms as an ever-larger threat and the next U.S. president is unlikely to walk away from the missile defense system the Bush administration is trying to establish in Eastern Europe, Rice said. "We face with the Iranians, and so do our allies and friends, a growing missile threat that is growing ever longer and ever deeper and where the Iranian appetite for nuclear technology to this point is still unchecked," Rice said after signing the Czech agreement. "It's hard for me to believe that an American president is not going to want to have the capability to defend our territory (and) the territory of our allies." The proposed U.S. missile defense system calls for a tracking radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland. Moscow has...
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