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Outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he doesn't regret being the public face for the Bush administration's international call to war in Iraq. Now diplomacy is making headway in containing nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea, he said. The former Army general suggested he will remain in public life somehow. ''I've still got some treadwear left on me,'' he said. Powell plans to leave office early next year. President Bush has nominated White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to replace him. International pressure is putting a ''heat lamp on Iranian nuclear activity, and the whole world is now concerned about it,'' he said. [more]