Monday, February 15, 2010

Israel Rattles Olive Branch

Israel asks Russia for Iran sanctions with teeth | Reuters: "Netanyahu, who met Medvedev in the Kremlin Monday, is trying to harden the resolve of major powers for additional sanctions against the Islamic Republic, which the West suspects is trying to make a nuclear bomb.

Iran's announcement that it has begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel has heightened Western suspicions and sparked greater worry in Moscow about Tehran's true intentions, though Iran denies it is trying to make an atomic bomb.

But Israel, seeing a mortal threat, has hinted it could attack Iran's nuclear facilities pre-emptively if it deems international diplomacy a dead end..."

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