Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community on Wednesday to threaten Iran with \”military sanctions,\” saying economic measures are failing to curb Tehran\’s nuclear drive.
Gabi Ashkenazi, the former Israeli military chief of staff, said that the threat to Israel from a nuclear Iran was not imminent.
Russia has told the Syrian government clearly that it is unacceptable to threaten to use chemical weapons, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday in its strongest condemnation of a recent warning by a Syrian official.
Iran said on Tuesday it had successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel in response to threats of military action against the country, Iranian media reported, the latest move in a war of nerves with the West.
The European Union banned imports of oil from Iran on Monday and imposed a number of other economic sanctions, joining the United States in a new round of measures aimed at deflecting Tehran\’s nuclear development program.
Iran\’s top military chief warned that his country would retaliate harshly against an Israeli strike on its nuclear sites, as Israel successfully test fired a new ballistic missile.
Only the convincing threat of military action headed by the United States will persuade Iran to drop plans to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. Speaking to foreign journalists, he said that although the latest round of international sanctions were hurting Iran, they would not be enough to force a u-turn on nuclear weapons.
Thousands of protesters filled Dag Hammarskjold Plaza opposite the United Nations for a rally against Iran\’s president, who came to New York to address the General Assembly
The building tempest surrounding Israel, the United States, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and allegations of spying shouldn\’t obscure the real problem at the root of it all: Iran\’s WMDs.
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